Cloud-RAN accelerated during industry group demo at MWC
Lenovo, China Mobile, Xilinx, Radisys and Napatech jointly demonstrated a cloud-RAN solution that supports heterogeneous acceleration hardware and decouples software from hardware at Mobile World Congress Shanghai.
A cloud-based Radio Access Network is a virtualized RAN that can coordinate multiple radio sites from a data center using NFV and SDN techniques. C-RAN is a mobile network architecture that is expected to be a cornerstone of 5G.