Nokia and Vodafone take to the clouds in Italy

Vodafone has been having a look at Nokia’s Cloud RAN architecture, specifically in the context of switching between 4G, 5G and IoT.
The trails took place at Vodafone’s testing facility in Italy and examined the use of cloud-based radio access technology for macro networks. A major reason, over and above the usual efficiency/agility ones, to move RANs to the cloud is the hybrid nature of future networks, with 4G expected to coexist with both new 5G air interfaces and LPWANs for IoT.
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