Altera, China Mobile Show Virtualized C-RAN Platform For 5G

(RTTNews) - Altera Corp. (ALTR) and China Mobile demonstrated jointly a Centralized/Coordinated/Cloud Radio Access Network or C-RAN platform at the Mobile World Congress 2015 today, targeting the next generation of virtualized 5G wireless networks.

According to Altera, this approach will dramatically improve the user experience at the edge of cells, achieving much higher channel capacity and spectrum efficiency, reduce the network power consumption, and support flexible and agile network deployments.

C-RAN has the potential to create new business models for network operators, and numerous new applications for the end users of 5G wireless networks.

This wireless network solution can provide future 5G networks the benefits of lower power consumption, lower total operating costs and higher scalability than current wireless networks.