5G xHaul Cell Site Gateway Solutions
RAD offers comprehensive support for 5G fronthaul, midhaul and backhaul using a single, economical cell site gateway (CSG):
- Fits multi-RAT 4G/5G RANs
- Supports various 5G RAN splits, including lower-level splits 8 and 7.2 with high bandwidth low latency requirements
- Provides highly efficient 4G/5G aggregation: 10G, 25G, 50G, and 100G, with timing synchronization
- Solves operational complexity and cost issues where different platforms are used
- Enables future upgrades in the field to address new requirements without forklifts
Download our CSP survey report on L2 business services and 5G xHaul
What's in the report?
- Customer required speeds, 2020/2021
- Ethernet access device buying criteria
- Top EAD use cases
- 100G availability for L2 business services
- Root causes of service calls
- Typical time-to-cash
- Top challenges delivering L2 business services
- Key attributes of new business services
- Cell site gateway (CSG) selection criteria for 4G/5G
- Top challenges delivering 5G xHaul wholesale services
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How new 5G xHaul needs impact the transport network:
| xHaul Needs | xHaul Needs Transport Network Requirements |
| High capacity | High capacity High speed connections (nx10G, nx25G, 100G) |
| Densification | Densification High speed connectivity for an increased number of nodes |
| Prompt on-demand connectivity | Prompt on-demand connectivity Dynamic traffic steering for network and inter-site connectivity, dynamic function instantiation |
| Service separation for multiple use cases and customers | Service separation for multiple use cases and customers Support for CoSes and hard isolation for end-to-end slicing |
| URLLC support | Support new transport technologies (e.g., TSN, DetNet) and architectures/functional splits for low delay and high reliability assurance |
| New Cloud RAN topology | High speed and stringent latency requirements to enable various C-RAN/D-RAN deployments |
| Virtual RAN and MEC support | Virtual RAN and MEC support Edge Computing infrastructure (distributed NFVI) |
| Service and network automation | Service and network automation Integration with SDN controllers and service and network orchestrator(s), zero-touch provisioning |
Your 5G Cell Site Gateway Buyer’s Checklist:
- Physical interfaces for any xHaul segment
- CPRI to eCPRI conversion
- Fast Lane, minimal delay assured
- 1588 Grandmaster
- Carrier-grade SLA assurance
- TSN, Det.net, network slicing
- Future 5G standards support with field-programmable chip
