Radisys, the services acceleration company, this week announced the availability of its CellEngine 5G RAN Version 1.0 software for communications service providers. Initial customer deployments are leveraging the software for Internet of Things (IoT), Cloud-RAN and LTE-Advanced functionality, said the company.
Communications service providers around the world are pursing 5G network evolution as part of their overall strategy to deliver new revenue-generating 5G services to their subscribers. 5G networks will provide gigabits of speed per second with millisecond latency and power efficiency. For subscribers, this means that they would be able to stream a movie to their device up to 30-40 times faster than LTE with no glitches in the video stream or drain on the device battery.
Radisys said that the CellEngine 5G RAN Version 1.0 software provides communications service providers with a tiered roll-out of 5G features, enabling their 5G network architecture development and deployment. The software’s initial capabilities include delivering Carrier Aggregation (CA) and Licensed Assisted Access (LAA) for multiple carriers as well as LTE Category M1 (CAT M1) and Narrowband (NB) for IoT and will later add 28GHz millimeter wave technology for true 5G speeds.
Brian Bronson, President and CEO, Radisys
We are in the business of enabling wireless network evolution, whether it be through the delivery of open source solutions or licensed software code. We made a significant R&D investment to make 5G functionality available to our customers today, and this first release reaffirms our commitment to enabling 5G network evolution and deployments.
