ZTE announced that the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) has adopted its service-sensing wireless power management solution for SDN-based radio backhaul testing.
ZTE said it has showcased the feature among other test cases in a recent test held by the ONF for multiple vendors.
ZTE used the NR8120A in this test. Being part of the NR8000 product family, the NR8120A is a brand new 5G-oriented platform device.
ONF has conducted three SDN PoC tests by 2016. The fourth test was held from June 26 to June 29 this year in Bonn, Germany. The test scope involved microwave applications based on the ONF TR532 model, Precision Timing Protocol (PTP) applications based on ITU-T G.8275.1, and Ethernet service applications based on ONF CoreModel (TR512). On the invitation of Deutsche Telekom, one of the sponsors, ZTE said it participated in the test of all test cases.
According to ZTE, when the traffic is light, the service-sensing wireless power management solution can dynamically decrease the transmit power on the air interface to reduce power consumption and frequency interference. ZTE also took responsible for developing the Ethernet service re-routing application in a typical scenario for transmission service protection.
This application performed service path re-routing in case that the air interface bandwidth failed to satisfy the service requirement due to environment deterioration. It was one of the most complicated applications in this PoC test, which was performed positively and successfully as an ONF Wireless Transport team, claims ZTE.
