{"id":37692,"date":"2024-07-22T09:05:11","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T08:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/?p=37692"},"modified":"2024-07-31T13:20:30","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T12:20:30","slug":"nokia-and-bharti-airtel-complete-successful-5g-nsa-cloud-ran-trial-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/2024\/07\/22\/nokia-and-bharti-airtel-complete-successful-5g-nsa-cloud-ran-trial-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Nokia and Bharti Airtel complete successful 5G NSA Cloud RAN trial in India"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><strong>First 5G NSA Cloud RAN trial adds to Nokia\u2019s multiple 5G Cloud RAN references \u2013 representing a significant milestone in Airtel\u2019s network.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nokia has confirmed the successful completion of its first 5G non-standalone (NSA) Cloud RAN trial with Bharti Airtel (Airtel) in India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The trial took place in an over-the-air environment utilizing 3.5 GHz spectrum for 5G and 2100 MHz for 4G. Data calls were successfully performed with commercial user devices over Airtel\u2019s commercial network achieving a throughput of over 1.2 Gbps. The trial utilized Nokia\u2019s RAN Software for virtualized Distributed Unit (vDU) and virtualized Centralized Unit (vCU) running on x86 Hardware with a CaaS layer. The trial also used Nokia\u2019s L1 acceleration that will enable enhanced power efficiency and support Nokia\u2019s anyRAN benefits of using common RAN software with the purpose-built part of the network. This will enable common functionality and performance across the hybrid network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The trial marks a significant milestone in Airtel&#8217;s overall cloudification journey and supports the operator\u2019s ambition of bringing cloud networking benefits, such as scalability and agility, to their network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Randeep Sekhon, Chief Technology Officer, Bharti Airtel, said: \u201cThis partnership with Nokia has enabled us to pioneer innovative solutions to upgrade our capabilities in 5G.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tommi Uitto, President of Mobile Networks, Nokia, said: \u201cThis successful trial with our long-term partner, Bharti Airtel supports their ambitions for building scalable, agile and highly automated networks.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First 5G NSA Cloud RAN trial adds to Nokia\u2019s multiple 5G Cloud RAN references \u2013 representing a significant milestone in Airtel\u2019s network. Nokia has confirmed the successful completion of its first 5G non-standalone (NSA) Cloud RAN trial with Bharti Airtel (Airtel) in India. The trial took place in an over-the-air environment utilizing 3.5 GHz spectrum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":37693,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,36,53,44,54],"tags":[103,6807,2705,79,306,102],"class_list":["post-37692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intelligent-technologies-cloud","category-networking","category-regional-news-newsletter","category-top-stories","category-used","tag-5g","tag-5g-nsa","tag-bharti-airtel","tag-cloud","tag-india","tag-nokia"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37692"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38002,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37692\/revisions\/38002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}