Let’s face facts. These days carriers are doing all they can to meet “the need for speed.” Also, if you listen to the commercials in the U.S. for wireless carriers you will hear words such as “largest” and “reliable” and “fastest,” and they all talk about the network, but when it comes to where you want to go … it’s the Internet. Next, listen to the ads for Internet destinations and you hear the word “cloud” and see reference to such processing services as AWS (where you can not only post your app but virtually run it as well).
When first I started working to provide an Internet service, the start-up cost was roughly $500,000 to build out the data center and related facilities. Today, though, it is possible to offer an app/service worldwide on the back of your credit card, without needing to own or maintain a single piece of network equipment.
So we have this gap between the cloud and the carrier that does not yet seem to connect. ASOCS and ARM, however, offer a vision of a Cloud Radio Access Network, or C-RAN as ASOCS CEO Gilad Garon and ARM VP of Segment Marketing Ian Ferguson referred to it in an interview. We spoke of many benefits in our discussion, including the ability to deliver on software defined radios (SDRs), which would be at the RAN level and is the reason why some of our friends are looking to create an Open RAN architecture. Whether you own the base stations or not, though, this architecture is of significant interest for all the data services, representing a better blending of On-Net services by carriers, Content Management providers, and even our Web services friends...Read More
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