Turkcell and Netsia Demonstrate RAN Slicing in Istanbul
February 22 2018 - 7:46AM
Business Wire
Turkcell (NYSE:TKC) (BIST:TCELL) has added a new partnership to
the strategic alliances it has made with the world's leading
technology companies for the development of 5G technologies.
Following the launch of several strategic alliances with leading
Turkish and international technology companies and universities
aimed at furthering the development of 5G technologies, the
successful integration of Netsia’s Virtual LTE RAN Platform into
Turkcell’s Network Labs located in Istanbul has been completed.
RAN slicing constitutes the cornerstone of any end-to-end
slicing initiative, as radio resources are ultimately the basic
building blocks to be shared (or sliced) among users. Netsia and
Turkcell have worked towards integrating Netsia’s platform into
Turkcell’s Labs, reproducing a Private LTE network with the ability
to be sub-divided into multiple slices which, at RAN level, can
offer different performances, latencies, and radio resources to
different sets of customers. The result of such integration
demonstrates that SDN/NFV techniques can be successfully applied to
the RAN, hence completing the last piece of the puzzle towards an
effective end-to-end network slicing.
Gediz Sezgin, Turkcell's Executive Vice President Network
Technologies says: “5G technology will be vital to every field.
That's why I think that 5G technology offers Turkey one of the best
opportunities to take a leap forward in the next 10 years. At
Turkcell, we are cooperating with the best companies and
universities both in the global sphere and in our own country, to
ensure that Turkey becomes a nation that has the ability to produce
its own technologies and store and processes its own data. We aim
to be a pioneer in the establishment of 5G standards and in making
the technology available in our country. This is why we partnered
with Netsia. The integration of Netsia’s Virtual LTE RAN Platform
into a commercial LTE core in our Labs is an important step forward
to demonstrate that an end-to-end network slicing for 5G networks
is possible, from the core to the RAN, and how it can be applied to
specific service environments, like that of a virtual Private LTE
network.”
Oguz Oktay, Netsia’s Vice President, Wireless Solutions
says: “We have developed ProgRAN as the core technology for the
rapid evolution of the telecom networks into multi-purpose networks
that will meet the requirements of not only a wide range of user
and device characteristics, but also a wide variety of services for
many vertical sectors - including those yet to be present. That
means a telecom operator will be able to offer differentiated
network functions to sectors such as IoT, healthcare or automotive,
using an Access-As-A-Service business model. Our partnership with
Turkcell has given us the opportunity to develop new use cases
based on real market requirements.”
Netsia, a technology startup based in Sunnyvale (California) and
a subsidiary of Argela, is actively working on programmable
Software-Defined RAN Virtualization for 5G and has developed
ProgRAN, a programmable Software Defined Network (SDN)-based Radio
Access Network framework. ProgRAN virtualizes the wireless channel
resources, as well as the radio resource management modules, in
base stations, allowing a remote controller to “slice the network”
into multiple virtual sub-networks. The virtual Private LTE
platform reproduces a hospital scenario where wireless resources
are shared among doctors, patients, visitors, and medical
equipment. The resource partitioning is safely controlled by the
hospital administration in a programmable way to provide wireless
access services based on the type of the users and the emergency
level at the hospital.
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Turkcell Corporate CommunicationsBurak Mergen,
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