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How much can operators save with a Cloud RAN?

Virtualization opens up new ways to architect, deploy and operate wireless networks, and its flexibility allows mobile operators to experiment with new network topologies. Virtualization has a profound impact on mobile networks end to end. As itshiftssome of the traditionally centralized core functionality closer to the edge with initiatives like multi-access edge computing (MEC), it also pulls the radio access network (RAN) infrastructure in the opposite direction, away from Distributed RANs (DRAN) in the edge to a shared, centralized location – with the Centralized RAN and Cloud RAN architectures(see diagram).

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