China Mobile has conducted the industry’s first field trial of a virtualized radio access network-based architecture based on network functions virtualization (NFV) technology from Alcatel-Lucent.
The trial – carried out at Beijing’s Tsinghua University – demonstrated the flexibility, scalability, cost and energy-efficiency of Alcatel-Lucent’s vRAN and NFV technologies. Coverage included both indoor and outdoor areas of the 442 hectare campus.
