Samsung launched 5G vRAN 3.0 integrated with AI, which will be deployed to the North American market in the first half of this year.

CTOnews.com February 28, Samsung today announced the release of the 5G vRAN 3.0 update and confirmed plans to deploy to the North American market in the first half of 2023. Samsung hopes to use the United States as a starting point to provide its next-generation virtual RAN capabilities to global operators.

CTOnews.com learned from the report that Samsung is the only supplier to conduct large-scale commercial vRAN deployments with top operators in the United States, Europe and Asia.

The 5G vRAN 3.0 technology includes a range of new "smart" features and has been optimized to meet the needs of forward-looking operators. According to the roadmap, the company also demonstrated its vRAN proven intelligent network capabilities.

Samsung's vRAN 3.0 features advanced features, including increased bandwidth support for large-scale MIMO radios, analysis of hourly traffic patterns to optimize network operating conditions, and the use of "sleep mode" (sleep mode) to automate the network to save energy consumption.

Ji-Yun Seol, vice president of Samsung Electronics, said: "Samsung's 5G vRAN has been successfully deployed in commercial networks and its performance is comparable to that of traditional hardware-based devices. We are accelerating the next phase of vRAN software development-Samsung's vRAN 3.0."

According to Sanxing, its vRAN solution "allows operators to perform network functions and provide services that are impossible or difficult to achieve with traditional RAN. Our vRAN conforms to the O-RAN standard and can run 2G, 4G and 5G networks, as well as 4G and 5G at the same time. Virtualized RAN is eco-friendly and can reduce power consumption by reducing or turning off the energy required on antennas, amplifiers and base stations."