SoftBank (SFTBY), NEC Corporation and VMware, recently acquired by Broadcom (AVGO), have jointly verified the virtualization of the radio access network, or RAN, which is the front end of the mobile network. The companies confirmed the feasibility of RAN modernization by converging O-RAN architecture and Telco Cloud. In this joint verification, a virtualized RAN system consisted of a general-purpose common infrastructure defined by SoftBank, vRAN applications using O-RAN architecture by…
