[May 28, 2014] France : Alcatel-Lucent announces first NFV deployment of wireless control as Saudi Arabia s Mobily moves its network to the cloud [TendersInfo (India)] Tweet (TendersInfo (India) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Alcatel-Lucent and Mobily Saudi Arabia today announced the first deployment globally of virtualized radio access network (RAN) software from Alcatel-Lucent s Network Function Virtualization (NFV) portfolio launched during Mobile World Congress 2014. Mobily is deploying Alcatel-Lucent s 9771 Wireless Cloud Element Radio Network Controller (WCE RNC) to improve service performance, reliability, scale and operational efficiency. The Saudi telecom market is one of the most competitive in the Middle East, with more than 51 million mobile subscribers in a country that has a population of 27.3 million. Mobily is the first service provider globally to deploy Alcatel-Lucent s virtual RAN software using the lightRadio 9771 Wireless Cloud Element Radio Network Controller (WCE RNC). Alcatel-Lucent s WCE RNC is part of the recently announced suite of Virtualized network functions. The NFV portfolio combines the company s networking technical acumen with its cloud capabilities to help guide customers through the complex virtualization journey without compromising operational performance and integrity. Running virtual radio network control functions over open, carrier-grade platforms provides considerable advantages over traditional approaches greatly facilitates advanced RNC requirements for geo-redundancy, near zero downtime maintenance and software upgrades, load balancing, and dynamic reconfiguration. This new platform underpins Alcatel-Lucent s virtualized LTE RAN activities which most recently included a proof of concept demonstration with China Mobile at Mobile World Congress 2014. (c) 2014 Euclid Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Provided by SyndiGate Media Inc. (Syndigate.info). [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]