In a connected world, mobile networks will have to evolve to support a larger, increased number of devices and services that overall contributing to the exponential traffic growth toward “5G.” To address data demand, base station architectures will evolve with centralized and virtualized radio access network architectures forming the mobile networks of the future.
These networks will be sustaining more capacity as well as network flexibility and scalability with a more generic hardware footprint. In particular, the connection between baseband and radio elements – known as fronthaul – will be highly impacted.
