When the xRAN Forum announced the xRAN Fronthaul Specification Version 1.0 in April, that represented a major step in the industry’s objective of defining open interfaces between the remote radio unit/head (RRU/RRH) and the baseband unit (BBU). But the group at that time knew there were some gaps, and its latest release is designed to…
One of the exciting developments in 5G is how mobile operators, supplies, service developers, and other actors are joining complementary assets to focus on different market niches. There is no one best 5G network strategy. Operators find different ways to combine spectrum, technologies, and value propositions. Such technological competition is vital to move the industry…
In the last couple of months, the xRAN Forum has come up with an alternative to CPRI that promises the freedom and efficiency operators crave. “The specification exists and is fully defined in terms of protocols, and the O&M [operations and maintenance] piece is being added,” said John Baker, a senior vice president with software…
Dozens of companies have asked the Federal Communications Commission for special temporary authority (STA) to conduct testing in the CBRS band over the last few years. Here are some of the STA permissions granted by the FCC in 2018 for testing CBRS: Mavenir was granted an STA in May to install one CBRS node in…
Operators and their vendors spend a lot of time defining the standards on which they will base their equipment and services, like with 5G and most every other “G” that came before. In the open source community as well, they’re coming together in places like the Open Network Foundation (ONF) to create reference designs that form the…
Edge computing is one of the latest and hottest buzzwords in the wireless industry. Already, AT&T is testing edge computing designs and Verizon has gone as far as to coin the term “intelligent edge network” for its latest upgrade efforts. Mavenir’s John Baker explained that as much as 80% of the data on mobile networks is video and that…
Mavenir is a member of both TIP and the xRAN Forum. According to Bejoy Pankajakshan, Mavenir’s SVP of technology and strategy, the two groups are different in how they are addressing fronthaul, which is the interface that delivers traffic from the baseband units (BBUs) and the remote radio heads. He added that TIP’s RFI is…
5GWorld is part of the larger TechXLR8 conference and exhibition, held in London’s Excel Centre this year.
Mavenir seeks to build its business with a broad range of software-based core and access technologies that, will double the size of its business.
So what’s the problem with 5G? The truth is, there’s nothing wrong with 5G except our expectations of it. Such a simple label looks like it promises “one more of whatever 4G offered”.
