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Disaggregated RAN solutions are becoming more prominent in 5G deployments by CSPs worldwide. The wave of virtualized and disaggregated RAN networks has been growing since the first deployment of these solutions in 3G and 4G networks. CSPs see this approach as the method to move away from using proprietary, closed systems from traditional vendors to take advantage of Disaggregated RAN solutions built on open COTS hardware and open interface standards. This disaggregation encourages innovation by fostering a diverse ecosystem of vendors and helps CSPs adapt to evolving technology and changing demands.
However, as the industry moves towards next generation RAN solutions built on these disaggregated stacks, CSPs need to investigate E2E-based performance KPIs to gain insight into various aspects network performance.
This paper highlights some of the challenges operators may encounter testing and implementing disaggregated RAN architectures. It also analyzes the performance capabilities of both Look-aside and Inline acceleration architectures for a specified user (UEs) load, as well as the power consumption of legacy RAN solutions compared to disaggregated RAN platforms.
The key to developing this analysis was driven through Dell Technologies Open Telecom Ecosystem Lab. The vendor neutral lab environment accelerates time to value with multi-vendor system integration at scale, supports multiple cloud operations modeling and test-line configurations, and user-defined end-to-end and on-demand validation at varying scopes.
CSPs are looking to disaggregated RAN to improve upon TCO and take a more agile approach for deployment and life-cycle management. Dell Technologies has the expertise in disaggregated RAN technology options, architecture design and integration to guide CSPs to a data-driven outcome.
To learn more about the findings in the white paper, or if you are interested in conducting your performance and capability testing of disaggregated RAN solution, contact the Dell OTEL.
Note: The performance KPIs might vary from production sites because this exercise and these tests are conducted in the lab with the simulated environment using the non-production reference RAN Stack.