Small Cells World Summit Open RAN Webinar

Small Cell Forum hosted an open industry Small Cells World Summit webinar, on December 9, 2020, on the topic of Small Cell Open RAN. It included panelists from companies across the global Small Cell eco-system - Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., Radisys, Reliance Jio and Picocom. The panel shared insight into SCF’s FAPI and Option 6 open interfaces and their applications within 3GPP and O-RAN frameworks.

The video of the webinar as follows:

Agenda and speakers:

1. Julius Robson, Chief Strategy Officer, SCF - Small Cell Open RAN specifications:  5G FAPI and Option 6 
2. Andrei Radulescu, Senior Staff Engineer, Qualcomm - FAPI: MAC/PHY interface for Small and Macro Cells
3. Ganesh Shenbagaraman, Head of Integrated Products and Ecosystems, Radisys  - Network FAPI deployment scenarios and O-RAN alignment
4. Ravi Sinha, Director, TechDev and Solutions (4G, 5G & MEC Solutions), Reliance Jio - Building the small cell  ecosystem around FAPI components and Option6 interfaces
5. Vicky Messer, Director Product Management, Picocom - nFAPI test support
6. Summary, next steps and Q&A

Related Posts:

• The 3G4G Blog: SCF Releases 5G Functional API to Enable Open Small Cells Ecosystem
• Telecoms Infrastructure Blog: 5G Small Cells Definition
• Telecoms Infrastructure Blog: Edge Computing and the Future of Small Cell Networks
• Telecoms Infrastructure Blog: NTT Docomo's 5G Network is based on 'Open RAN' Principles
• The 3G4G Blog: A quick tutorial on Open RAN, vRAN & White Box RAN
• Telecoms Infrastructure Blog: Precision Planning for 5G Era Networks with Small Cells 

How Small Cells will develop through 4.5G & 5G

Just came across this old article from Radisys (in TMN magazine), written by Renuka Bhalerao. Available on Radisys site here if you want to download.

Some points from the article:

• Small Cells are good for LTE in unlicensed bands
• … and LTE in unlicensed is good for small cells
• Moving to cloud architecture is promising for the RAN – but there’s no one way to do it
• Mobile Edge Computing and the intelligent edge requires small cells
• We are seeing the emergence of an “IoT small cell”
• LTE-A PRO features will tax small cell software systems

Complete article available here.