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Infrastructure for Network

Mobile network infrastructure needs to modernize primarily to keep up with the ever-increasing demand for data and the proliferation of connected devices. As more people rely on smartphones, tablets, and Internet of Things (IoT) devices, mobile networks face unprecedented pressure to deliver faster and more reliable services. Legacy systems need help accommodating the high data traffic, leading to congestion and dropped connections. Moreover, as applications become more data-intensive—think high-definition video streaming, virtual reality, and smart home technologies—outdated infrastructure can stifle innovation and limit user experience.

Modernizing mobile network infrastructure involves transitioning from traditional 5G systems to advanced solutions like Virtualized 5G RAN, 6G, and beyond, which offer significantly higher speed, lower latency, and greater capacity. This upgrade includes deploying small cells, enhancing fiber optics, and leveraging new technologies such as network slicing and edge computing. Additionally, adopting cloud-native architectures can enhance flexibility and scalability, allowing for real-time optimization of resources. Ultimately, a modernized infrastructure will improve user experiences and enable new services and business models, fostering economic growth and technological advancement in an increasingly digital world.

Public Cloud

Leveraging and offering hyperscaler supported services for telecom domain quality of service requirements.

Private Cloud

Building scalable, reliable, and measured network quality in a virtualized environment across a multi-vendor ecosystem.

RAN Edge

Radios, Compute, Application Hosting, Antennas, and leveraging real-estate at the far edge of the mobile network.

Transport/Backhaul

Inter-Office, Backhaul, Fronthaul, and Microwave to bring reliable networks at required capacity.

Considerations for Network Architecture

The ability to rapidly deploy secure new services to monetize mobile networks leads to network infrastructure modernization efforts. Virtualized network functions to deploy and upgrade at scale have increased from core to radio to supporting applications across mobile networks. Initiatives such as OpenRAN, CAMARA, AI-RAN have furthered the need for infrastructure upgrades and deployment to be more dynamic. Infrastructure has moved to the increased public/private cloud, generic hardware, edge computing, high-bandwidth transport means, data-center efficiency, and energy-wise approaches.

Containerization and Beyond Preparing for and executing a cloud native infrastructure for scalability and fast service deployment.

Energy-Efficient Hardware Sourcing and integrating low-power chipsets, efficient cooling systems, and hardware acceleration.

Horizontal, Vertical, and Expansion Ability to support node additions, load distribution with elastic scaling (expand & shrink) to support new services in addition to resource upgrades, performance tuning, and infrastructure enhancements. Ensure proper planning, capacity management, and geographic coverage is addressed and leveraged across the network.

Edge, Redundancy, Self-Healing Building RAN and Core functionalities to leverage functionality at the edge nodes with path diversity focused on low-latency requirements with automated fault detection, recovery, and reconfiguration.

Standards, Compatibility, and Legacy From protocol translation, API integrations, and implementation of standards across the network for greater supplier diversity, improved costing, and fast implementation.