Alcatel-Lucent has inked a partnership with cloud software and hardware companies - Red Hat, Advantech and 6WIND, to accelerate the delivery of commercial virtualized radio access network (vRAN) products. The collaboration includes the integration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, and Red Hat Ceph Storage within Alcatel-Lucent’s vRAN offering.
According to Alcatel-Lucent, collaboration with these companies will enhance its vRAN technology that works on the CloudBand NFV platform, ensuring that it will meet service providers' large-scale performance and reliability requirements.
Alcatel-Lucent said that it is trialling its near-commercial vRAN with leading service providers in North America, Asia and Europe using a platform that consists of 6WIND, Advantech and Red Hat hardware and software. According to the French telecoms vendor, in 2016 it will expand these trials using the CloudBand NFV platform to onboard and manage applications.
Glenn Booth, vice-president of Wireless Portfolio Management and Strategy at Alcatel-Lucent
Working with Red Hat, Advantech and 6WIND we are accelerating the availability of our vRAN, giving operators the flexibility and efficiency they require on a large-scale to meet subscriber data demand into the future.
Eric Carmès, Founder and CEO of 6WIND
We are proud to collaborate with Alcatel-Lucent to enable critical large scale vRAN deployments for Mobile Operators. We are leading the migration to NFV deployments such as vRAN with our high performance software that ensures cost-effective virtual networking.
