Open and agile “x”haul solutions to drive availability, flexibility
and choice in 5G services
BARCELONA, Spain--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar. 1, 2017--
ADTRAN®,
Inc. (NASDAQ: ADTN), a leading provider of next-generation open
networking solutions, today announced its ongoing commitment to ensuring
that access networks are open, programmable and affordable as carriers
look to lay the foundations for 5G.
5G promises network connectivity 10 to 100 times faster than 4G
networks, with latency of less than 1msec, making real-time applications
such as mixed reality and autonomous vehicles enabled by this 5th
generation of mobile networks. To fully leverage the potential of 5G,
several industry shifts must occur. First, service providers will need
to deploy a large number of radios closer to the edge of the network to
provide the performance levels necessary to seamlessly deliver
bandwidth-intensive applications like mobile video and virtual or
augmented reality. Second, the industry must also align on the need for
more transport-friendly Ethernet backhaul. Third, the industry must
extend the SDN/NFV initiatives to the 5G mobile network core across the
access network in the form of software defined access (SD-Access).
SD-Access for 5G incorporates point-to-point (P2P) and
point-to-multipoint (P2MP) next-generation PON and will take a leading
role in building the converged backhaul, fronthaul and crosshaul
networks that will support high-bandwidth and low-latency connectivity.
ADTRAN has taken a leading role in aligning with this industry shift by
being the first vendor to develop XGS-PON, 10G EPON and NGPON2 SD-Access
solutions based on open reference architecture like CORD that will shape
the future of how mobile and fixed access networks will be built. ADTRAN
is focused on extending its leadership specifically into mobile access
networks, embracing:
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Multi-wavelength NG-PON2 as the infrastructure technology of choice to
deliver low latency multi-Gigabit services for fronthaul, backhaul and
crosshaul 5G networks
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The industry’s first, most open and scalable SD-Access architecture -
ADTRAN Mosaic™ - with its disaggregated physical network access
elements and open source SDN controller
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Fixed Access Network Sharing (FANS) capability, supporting access
sharing between multiple operators
ADTRAN is well established as a leading innovator in NG-PON2 and
Ethernet-based access and transport solutions and is pioneering
SD-Access open, programmable and scalable CORD architectures. The
company is driving this innovation and architecture as the underlying
infrastructure to fully support and accelerate 5G mobile networks.
“As network operators prepare for the implementation of 5G, it’s
essential they can plan for, and rely on, the coming of age of open
mobile access networks,” said Erik Keith, principal analyst, Global
Telecom Technology and Software at GlobalData. “In a 5G world, the
industry simply cannot afford to remain shackled to the default, siloed,
proprietary approaches of old.”
As we drive toward open networks, we believe that FANS allows competing
service providers to operate independently and securely on a shared,
open access network. In previous generations of networks, operators have
been forced to build competing access infrastructures because wholesale
mechanisms such as VULA (Virtual Unbundled Local Access) have proved
insufficient for their requirements. In the case of 5G networks, the
adoption of FANS can serve to cost-reduce and accelerate deployment
while simultaneously address the autonomy and privacy required by those
operators using wholesale access to the network.
“5G densification is a watershed moment for network operators. They now
have the opportunity to embrace a more open, programmable, scalable
access network in order to achieve the network growth, performance and
diversity demanded by end users and regulators alike,” commented Ronan
Kelly, CTO EMEA and APAC for ADTRAN. “In that context an SD-Access
architecture provides the ideal foundation for scalable, sharable mobile
access and x-haul, driving availability, flexibility and choice in 5G
services, and is a pressing use case for next-generation fixed broadband
technologies such as multi-wavelength NG-PON2.”
ADTRAN’s SD-Access solution flexibly combines NG-PON2, XGS-PON and 10G
EPON – keystone next-generation access technologies - allowing network
operators to cost-effectively support mobile, enterprise and residential
use cases with a single, universal platform.
About ADTRAN
ADTRAN, Inc. is a leading global provider of networking and
communications equipment. ADTRAN’s products enable voice, data, video
and Internet communications across a variety of network infrastructures.
ADTRAN solutions are currently in use by service providers, private
enterprises, government organizations, and millions of individual users
worldwide. For more information, please visit www.adtran.com.
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