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TECHNOLOGY UPDATES SAMENA TRENDS

Telstra Makes First 5G Data Call on Commercial Network

Australian mobile network operator (MNO)
Telstra and vendor partner Ericsson have
announced the first Ericsson Cloud RAN
5G data call on the former’s commercial
network. In a press release the two
companies claimed that the ‘landmark
technology trial’, which is taking place on
the Gold Coast in Queensland, represented
the first time that Ericsson’s Cloud RAN
virtualization technology has been trialed
in a commercial network in the southern
hemisphere. Ericsson’s Cloud RAN
solution virtualizes the RAN baseband
as cloud-native network functions for the
CU (centralized unit) and DU (distributed
unit), while it has been suggested that
virtualization of the RAN baseband will
provide the MNO with increased flexibility,
faster delivery of services, and more
efficient network operations. Commenting
on the matter, Iskra Nikolova, Telstra’s have announced the deployment of Nokia Speaking about the development, Lakshmi
Network and Infrastructure Executive, said: Orchestration Center to build a reusable Easuwaran, Group Owner Orchestration,
‘Telstra’s ongoing partnership with Ericsson platform ‘as a service’ enabling Telstra’s Enablement and Shared Technologies at
has reached another new milestone this internal network domains faster time Telstra, said: ‘Nokia Orchestration Center
week with the first 5G Cloud RAN data to market and an enhanced customer has helped us to build a true cloud-native,
call over our commercial network utilizing experience. In what the pair claimed was reusable and shared Platform-as-a-Service
Ericsson’s industry-leading Cloud RAN a ‘global first’, it was suggested that the (PaaS) offering (also known as Domain
technology. This achievement clears the rollout will allow Telstra to fulfil services in a Enabler as a Service) for our internal
way for the wider deployment of Ericsson’s more streamlined way by taking advantage network domains. Our customers not
Cloud RAN technology, which will enable the of Nokia’s Unified Inventory solution, while only benefit from an improved experience,
full benefits of 5G for Telstra’s customers also providing discovery, reconciliation but it will help us unlock new business
across Australia.’ In separate but related and ongoing synchronization of network opportunities by being able to introduce
news, Telstra and Finnish vendor Nokia and service assets in near real-time. new products quickly and seamlessly.’

Globe, Nokia Report Successful 600G C Band + 400G L Band WDM Trial

Finnish equipment manufacturer Nokia system with Philippines-based fixed and operation of the vendor’s PSE-Vs chipset,
has announced the completion of a mobile operator Globe Telecom. The trial transmitting a 600Gbps channel in the
trial of its C+L band WDM optical line reportedly demonstrated the successful C-band and a 400Gbps channel in the
L-band on Globe’s live fiber-optic network.
Nokia said the trial paves the way for
Globe’s future growth to meet the needs
of low-latency and high-capacity traffic
demands for 100G and 400G services. In
the press release, it noted that its C+L band
solution doubles the capacity of the telco’s
national backbone network using Nokia’s
1830 Photonic Service Switch platform.
The trial was carried out using one of
Globe’s backbone networks between the
Tarlac and Cabanatuan segment, located in
the Northern Luzon part of the Philippines.

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