Mavenir has entered a business partnership with Turkcell. The two companies will together test and deploy an OpenRAN vRAN within the Turkcell Group, initially in the home market Turkey. The partnership will start directly with fully containerised CU/DU and Open FH with Split 7.2 in trial and planned deployments, which will be a first in the industry, Mavenir said. The virtual RAN platform will be deployed on Turkcell Telco Cloud and it will be the first workload to go live on the Turkcell Edge Cloud.
Mavenir’s OpenRAN vRAN platform centralises baseband processing in cloud-native virtualised baseband units (vBBU) and exploits fronthaul over ethernet between vBBU and multiple remote radio units (RRU). The Mavenir vRAN architecture and platform can support 4G as well as both NSA and SA implementations of 5G NR.
With open interfaces, the platform has the flexibility to support various deployment scenarios – including functional split 2 for enterprises and split 2 & 7 for macro cells. It can also support massive MIMO, edge micro services and network slicing for 5G NR.
