Corning and Altiostar to Showcase Digital Integration of DAS with vRAN at Mobile World Congress 2017 in Barcelona
February 27 2017 - 1:45AM
Business Wire
Corning, Inc. and Altiostar announced today a joint
demonstration at Mobile World Congress, February 27 – March 2, 2017
in Barcelona, of Altiostar’s vRAN (virtualized RAN) solution,
combined with the Corning® Optical Network Evolution (ONE™).
Corning optical network evolution (ONE™) solutions enable a high
capacity, economical, indoor LTE coverage DAS (distributed antenna
system). Unlike typical single-operator RRH (remote radio head)
systems, ONE offers a family of full-band, multi-channel,
multi-technology, multi-operator RF units, which are compatible
with current LTE systems, as well as future 5G radio access
technologies.
The Altiostar vRAN solution runs on COTS server hardware for its
virtualized RAN / baseband solution with an Ethernet fronthaul
between vBBU and the DAS headend. The Corning® ONE™ Cellular
Solutions are available in 4-band to 6-band modular RF units, have
software controlled sectorization for capacity steering, and
options for cost-effective MIMO. The digital interface between the
Altiostar vRAN and Corning ONE eliminates the need for on-site
capacity from traditional BBUs and also replaces the need for
multiple on-site single-band high power RRH units.
“The combination of Corning advanced DAS and Altiostar vRAN is
an ideal solution for indoor coverage for 4G/LTE and future mobile
systems,” said Mike O’Day, vice president, Wireless Networks,
Corning. “The Corning ONE digital interface to Altiostar vRAN,
modularity for 1-6 frequency bands, and software sectorization,
offer unique economy and flexibility for multi-operator indoor
mobile coverage.”
“The Altiostar vRAN platform supports NFV + SDN, enabling
exceptional scalability, rapid deployment and network architecture
innovation. It also reduces operator costs through the use of
commercial off-the-shelf hardware for the virtualized baseband
functions,” explained Ash Dahod, president and CEO of Altiostar.
“In particular, Altiostar’s vRAN is based on a virtualized C-RAN
architecture and supports LTE-Advanced features such as Uplink
Coordinated Multi-Point (COMP) processing, Inter- and Intra-site
Carrier Aggregation, Self-Organizing Networks (SON) and more.
Altiostar vRAN also supports application intelligence using Deep
Packet Inspection for Mobile Edge Computing.”
The Altiostar vRAN/Corning ONE demonstration will be featured at
Mobile World Congress in Hall 1, Booth 1H19.
About Corning Incorporated:
Corning (www.corning.com) is one of the world’s leading
innovators in materials science. For more than 160 years, Corning
has applied its unparalleled expertise in specialty glass,
ceramics, and optical physics to develop products that have created
new industries and transformed people’s lives. Corning succeeds
through sustained investment in R&D, a unique combination of
material and process innovation, and close collaboration with
customers to solve tough technology challenges. Corning’s
businesses and markets are constantly evolving. Today, Corning’s
products enable diverse industries such as consumer electronics,
telecommunications, transportation, and life sciences. They include
fiber-optic solutions and damage-resistant cover glass for
smartphones. For more information about the Corning solution please
visit the Corning ONE Knowledge Center.
About Altiostar:
Altiostar is the pioneer in virtualized RAN (vRAN) with Ethernet
fronthaul. Its unique eNodeB solution is designed to improve
quality of experience of the mobile network, enhance spectral
efficiency and reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). Altiostar has
developed a wide portfolio of eNodeB solutions for all the major
LTE frequencies and for all deployment scenarios. The vRAN solution
is the foundation for evolution towards 5G. It provides elastic
scalability, low-risk innovation, with a common NFV+SDN enabled
platform. This provides significant cost savings, using
commercial-off-the-shelf hardware and LTE-Advanced feature
capability, based on C-RAN architecture. vRAN offers the most
efficient platform to make Mobile Edge Computing a reality.
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