I've been out of the industry for a few years, but can anyone explain how L1 RAN processing can be done 'in the cloud' without back-hauling huge amounts of raw RF data to a data-center?
Most of VRAN sites will be still DRAN (distributed RAN -server on site).
CRAN (centralized RAN) is a fairy tale so far and works very few scenarios like very dense urban. Still we are talking about 200/400G NICs being standard.
L1 interface is also more efficient than it was for previous G’s where BTS sent time domain data, modern FH sends only allocated parts of spectrum in frequency domain.
dspwizard|11 months ago
L1 interface is also more efficient than it was for previous G’s where BTS sent time domain data, modern FH sends only allocated parts of spectrum in frequency domain.