Using its recently acquired C Band spectrum, Verizon teamed up with Samsung Electronics on an end-to-end fully virtualized 5G data session in a live network environment. The trials took place in Texas, over Verizon’s network, and it used Samsung’s fully virtualized RAN (vRAN) solution built on its own software stack and C Band 64T64R Massive MIMO radio in coordination with Verizon’s virtualized core.
According to the companies, the trials achieved speeds “commensurate with traditional hardware-based equipment.”
