AirHop
Communications Inc., a leading supplier of Self-Organizing Network
(SON) solutions for heterogeneous networks (HetNets), today announced
that it joined the Open Networking Lab (ON.Lab) as a collaborator and
will demonstrate its award winning eSON technology as a key application
on Open Network Operating System (ONOS) open source software platform.
AirHop will support the ONOS
Mobile Central Office Re-architected as a Datacenter (MCORD) initiative,
which provides service provider with a 5G ready network function
virtualization (NFV) and software-defined networking (SDN) platform to
reduce CapEx and OpEx, improve service deployment agility and end-user
Quality of Experiences (QoE).
AirHop’s eSON solution enables mobile operators to reduce operating
costs by automating network deployment, optimizing network coverage and
capacity and improving end-user QoE in HetNets. This collaboration will
help accelerate the adoption and deployment of MCORD architecture as 5G
platform by providing conventional as well as real-time SON
functionality using a cloud-based software to seamlessly coordinate and
optimize physical and virtual resources across virtualized baseband
units (vBBU) in the SDN.
By working together with other ON.Lab member companies, AirHop will:
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Demonstrate the flexibility of the ONOS platform to support critical
network applications such as real-time SON.
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Demonstrate how AirHop’s eSON architecture is designed to fit in the
SDN/NFV framework.
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Demonstrate how SON on ONOS addresses efficient use of resource,
including radio resources, and better QoE to customers.
“We welcome AirHop’s contributions to the ONOS community,” said Bill
Snow, Vice President of Engineering at the ONOS project. “Collaborations
with innovative companies such as AirHop that deliver commercial ready
SON solutions that fit naturally into our NFV and SDN framework
significantly strengthen ONOS' community and help accelerate
commercialization of MCORD initiative to bring datacenter economics and
cloud agility to the Telco Central Office.”
“ONOS, led by ON.Labs, has been very successful aligning the industry
leaders to establish the Open Source SDN/NFV platform that directly
address service providers’ challenges of increased system investment
associated with growth in data usage and demand for customized user
experiences,” said Yan ***, co-founder and CEO of AirHop. “We are
excited to be part of the ONOS ecosystem and to bring our state-of-art
eSON solution to help achieve the goal of re-architecting the mobile
networks with MCORD for 5G.”
ONOS' ecosystem comprises ON.Lab and worldwide organizations that are
funding and contributing to the ONOS project. ONOS Partner members
include Verizon, AT&T, NTT Communications, SK Telecom, China Unicom,
Ciena, Cisco, Ericsson, Fujitsu, Huawei, Intel and NEC.
For more information about MCORD, visit http://cord.onosproject.org.