To maximize 5G mobile service opportunities across China Unicom's
network, services acceleration company Radisys®
Corporation (NASDAQ:RSYS) and China
Unicom, one of the world's largest mobile service providers, are
partnering to build and integrate Mobile CORD (M-CORD) development PODs
that use open source software. M-CORD, built on top of ONOS and the CORD
(Central Office Re-architected as a Datacenter) open source project,
combines data center economics and the agility of the cloud with the
benefits of a virtualized and disaggregated mobile core, as well as
access infrastructure and mobile edge computing for innovation and
deployment of 5G services. The companies will work together to develop
deployment scenarios for this solution in China Unicom's network.
"As China Unicom evolves its network from 4G to 5G, it requires a fully
virtualized and disaggregated infrastructure to better serve its
residential, enterprise and mobile customers," said Joseph Sulistyo,
senior director of open networking solutions, Radisys. "We're confident
that together we can build and integrate an M-CORD POD to facilitate a
robust 5G mobility infrastructure, thereby enabling China Unicom to
rapidly deploy new 5G services on its network."
As a CORD
systems integrator, Radisys will leverage CORD's open reference
implementation to bring China Unicom's network cloud agility and
improved economics. M-CORD is an emerging platform for 5G services with
three key components: mobile edge services, virtualized Radio Access
Network (RAN), and virtualized Evolved Packet Core (EPC). M-CORD makes
mobility more cost-efficient, more software-programmable and more
cloud-elastic.
"China Unicom is collaborating with Radisys to collectively develop
technology enablers and use cases for 5G services," said Dr. Tang
Xiongyan, CTO, Network Technology Research Institute, China Unicom.
"Radisys will also provide us with its recommended deployment scenarios
and feasibility analysis as well as an effective prototype demonstration
of the solution in our mobile network. We're encouraged that its efforts
will yield great results for our subscribers."
Additionally, Radisys and China Unicom will develop together an open
reference implementation of a virtualized RAN (vRAN) and an open
reference implementation of next-generation mobile core architecture
with observability and analytics. The companies will also explore
opportunities for projects surrounding mobile edge computing (MEC),
virtualization technology for connected cars and service development and
demonstration, and connectionless architecture.
See the M-CORD Demonstration at Mobile World Congress
Radisys and ON.Lab will demonstrate M-CORD use cases running on
commodity hardware and on DCEngine™ at Mobile World Congress, February
27-March 2 in its Booth 5I61 in Hall 5. To see the demonstration and
meet with Radisys' CORD and open source experts, contact [email protected].
About CORD Project
CORD™ (Central Office Re-architected as a Datacenter) brings datacenter
economics and cloud flexibility to the telco Central Office and to the
entire access network. CORD is an open source service delivery platform
that combines SDN, NFV, and elastic cloud services to network operators
and service providers. It integrates ONOS, OpenStack, Docker, and
XOS—all running on merchant silicon, white-box switches, commodity
servers, and disaggregated access devices. The CORD reference
implementation serves as a platform for multiple domains of use, with
open source communities building innovative services for residential,
mobile, and enterprise network customers. The CORD ecosystem comprises
ON.Lab and organizations that are funding and contributing to the CORD
initiative. These organizations include AT&T, China Unicom, Google, NTT
Communications Corp., SK Telecom Co. Ltd., Verizon, Ciena Corporation,
Cisco Systems, Inc., Fujitsu Ltd., Intel Corporation, NEC Corporation,
Nokia, Radisys, and Samsung Electronics Co. See the full list of
members, including CORD's collaborators, and learn how you can get
involved with CORD at www.opencord.org.
CORD is an independently funded software project hosted by The Linux
Foundation, the nonprofit advancing professional open source management
for mass collaboration to fuel innovation across industries and
ecosystems.
About China Unicom
China Unicom was officially established on 15 October 2008, and is
committed to forging itself into a world-leading innovative ICT service
provider. As of 2015, China Unicom is ranked 207 among the Fortune
Global 500. As a leading operator providing both fixed-line and mobile
services in China, the subscriber number of fixed service and mobile
service is more than 300 million, and its service covers 31 provincial
branches and 7 overseas operations. It has about 400,000 employees. For
more information about China Unicom, please visit http://chinaunicom.com.cn/.
About Radisys
Radisys helps communications and content providers, and their strategic
partners, create new revenue streams and drive cost out of their
services delivery infrastructure. Radisys' hyperscale software defined
infrastructure, service aware traffic distribution platforms, real-time
media processing engines and wireless access technologies enable its
customers to maximize, virtualize and monetize their networks. For more
information about Radisys please visit www.radisys.com.
Radisys® is a registered trademark of Radisys. All other trademarks
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