Three RF challenges that come with cloud-native, disaggregated networks
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- 01 May 2023
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Impacts to the radio frequency environment isn’t the first aspect that comes to mind amid the ongoing shift toward cloud-native, disaggregated networks.
But that’s not to say there aren’t any, and according to Regis Lerbour, VP of product for network testing and RAN at Infovista, it’s important to talk about RF in the context of the ongoing evolution of testing and disaggregation of networks. After all, one of the focal points for development is disaggregation in the RAN itself.
“The shift to cloud native and disaggregated networks brings a software-centric environment and such an agile environment means a high volume of changes to the network—and all of these changes have the possibility [of effecting] service reliability, service continuity … in a negative way,” he said. “So testing is essential to ensure that the network changes do not impact the end customer experience.”
He lays out three ways that increasingly software-centric networks put pressure on RF testing:
Expanding demand. This plays into Lerbour’s comment about the many more changes, and more frequent changes, which become routine with a cloud-native network. But all of those changes still need to be validated to ensure that nothing breaks and that end-user experience is only improved. That means that as changes increase, there is also an exponential increase in the testing demand, he said. Read More…
