SoftBank Corp., NEC and Broadcom Jointly Validate RAN Modernization with Virtualization by Unifying O-RAN Architecture and Telco Cloud
Broadcom(AVGO) Newsfilter·2024-02-29 06:00BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 29, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS—SoftBank Corp. ("SoftBank"), NEC Corporation ("NEC") and VMware, recently acquired by Broadcom Inc., have jointly verified the virtualization of the radio access network ("RAN"), which is the front end of the mobile network. The companies confirmed the feasibility of RAN modernization by converging O-RAN architecture (1) and Telco Cloud (2). In this joint verification, a virtualized RAN ("vRAN") system consisted of a general-purpose c ...