NEC SaaS promises up to 10-fold reduction in RAN energy use

Japanese vendor NEC reckons its new software-as-a-service (SaaS) will help telcos tackle the tricky task of cutting power consumption.
Called Aspire NetZero, it’s an application that autonomously analyses and predicts traffic patterns, and then automatically configures – and continually adjusts – network performance parameters to strike the ideal balance between energy consumption and customer experience. The solution is vendor-agnostic, and compatible with 3G, 4G, and 5G netwo