Parallel Wireless All-G OpenRAN controller

Parallel Wireless has released what it says is the world’s first All-G OpenRAN controller, providing a full, virtualised RAN controller solution for all technologies — 2G, 3G, 4G and soon, 5G. The carrier-grade, NFV/SDN-based, 3GPP-compliant RAN software delivers orchestration and policy features that manage the radio connection, mobility management, quality of service (QoS) management, edge services and end-user equipment interference management. It hides the underlying RAN complexity of each different technology and provides a simpler, open standard interface towards the respective core networks and radios.

Parallel Wireless has de-coupled the control plane and user plane so that each of the components can be located in different parts of the network, and has added built-in support for the open source Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK). The OpenRAN controller module virtualises vBSC/2G gateway, 3G gateway/vRNC, 4G gateway/X2 gateway and Wi-Fi gateway. The fully virtualised and scalable controller functionality supports the E2 interface and works with multi-vendor RAN.