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When calculating the TCO for the disaggregated RAN, it is necessary to account for a multitude of factors contributing to both Capital Expenditure (CAPEX) and OPEX.
This section focuses primarily on the OPEX and energy consumption:
Typical RAN Deployments cover the different type of cells as mentioned below, but the calculation is based on macro-cells, cell-site deployments only.
The RAN Markets of CSPs based on macro-cells can be broken down into the following category with the peak target throughput:
RAN market type | Number of small macro cell-sites | Number of medium macro cell-sites | Number of Llrge macro cell-sites | Target throughput per cell-site | Typical count of cell-sites per CSP |
Rural | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 Gbps | 1000 |
Sub Urban | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10 Gbps | 5000 |
urban | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10 Gbps | 2000 |