Experts from MTS Electronics (a subsidiary of MTS) tested uplink aggregation in a pilot 5G network built on the basis of virtualization of network functions in a vRAN radio access network.

The tests demonstrated the operation of 5G radio equipment in low (<3 GHz) and medium (<6 GHz) frequency bands (UL CA 5G FDD + TDD) on a fully virtual infrastructure and commercial RAN equipment.

According to Alexey Maslyankin, the Director of the MTS Radio Access Network Department, the company “managed to remove one of the main technological barriers to the commercialization of vRAN - the lack of spectrum aggregation functionality, which in this configuration was demonstrated for the first time in the world.”

Testing took place in the Open RAN laboratory on the territory of the MTS 5G Center at VDNKh in Moscow. VRAN solutions will be widely used in fifth-generation networks and in the Open RAN architecture, the company said in a press release.

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Alexey Maslyankin, the Director of the Radio Access Network Department of MTS

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