Huawei’s SingleRAN: 70% smaller, 50% more efficient
Huawei Technologies says that its SingleRAN (single radio access network) platform now offers significant savings for mobile operators struggling with multiple technologies and services on their networks.
Robert Fox, chief branding officer at Huawei, told Green Telecom Live that SingleRAN is designed with a core set of components, including a single set of batteries, power supply and so on, and leverages the company’s software defined radio (SDR) technology to support multiple networks on a single infrastructure platform.
The solution not only consolidates the hardware, but is able to consolidate an operator’s services, such as supporting both 2G and 3G services from the same equipment.
With America Movil in Panama, the deployment of SingleRAN has led to a 70% reduction in the footprint of each site, allowing for easier site deployment and expansion, and energy savings of more than 50%, Huawei said. For one site, the new Huawei equipment consumed 61.1% less power than the operator’s legacy equipment. Calculated against 5,000 sites, the power savings would equal some 10 million euros per year.
Having a single RAN also means 80% less cost per site because it is smaller and easier to deploy, 70% lowered transmission costs and a 60% reduction in operations and maintenance cost because of the auto-configuration feature and the fact that operators will only need a single team to manage both 2G and 3G networks.
While many wireless equipment vendors have unveiled software upgradable base stations, especially those that are so-called, LTE-ready, Fox asserts that Huawei’s is one of the first to be able to support multiple network technologies live in on a single set of hardware. This means an operator can deliver both GSM and UMTS (and in the future, LTE) services from a single site, as long as the services are delivered on the same spectrum band. The equipment will also reconfigure itself to provide the optimum capacity for each type of services depending on network traffic and user demand.
According to Fox, over 1.5 million transceivers of the SingleRAN solution has been shipped as of June 2009, which is tracking “one year ahead of plan.”
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