RailTel partners with CloudExtel to launch India’s first neutral Shared RAN solution
In the initial phase, the focus will be on extending this technology at more Railway Stations in Mumbai. Later, more stations may be considered for coverage.
New Delhi: RailTel, a Mini Ratna CPSU of the Ministry of Railways, and CloudExtel, a known Full Stack Network as a Service (NaaS) Provider have partnered together to launch India’s first Shared Radio Access Network (RAN) solution for congested locations with the objective of enhancing telecom users’ experience.
RailTel and CloudExtel carried out the successful pilot of this project in partnership with Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea, Nokia, and the Telecom Infra Project (TIP)’s NaaS Solutions Group, with vital support from the Railways, in one of the most network, stressed locations namely Mumbai Central railway station.
The outcomes of the pilot project have been impressive with 5 times increase in average user speed of mobile data (from 3 Mbps to 15 Mbps) for the mobile phone networks of both Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea, while the data consumption jumped up by 20%.
Locations specifically like traffic junctions, airports, and railway stations are high-density areas for network congestion. Challenges multiply especially in cities like Mumbai which are densely populated. The success of Shared RAN solution holds promises for the customers of such highly populated and highly crowded areas to have better mobile data usage experience.
In the initial phase, the focus will be on extending this technology at more Railway Stations in Mumbai. Later, more stations may be considered for coverage. Talking about it Mrs. Aruna Singh, Chairman & Managing Director, RailTel said, “Facilitating seamless connectivity and an enhanced commute experience to passengers at railway stations has been our commitment. The impressive speed and data consumption enabled by Shared RAN has validated our belief in this technology, and we look forward to scaling this in all congested areas serving passengers and telecom operators while reducing the clutter of infrastructure and energy consumption in railway stations”.
Commenting on it, Mr. Kunal Bajaj, Co-Founder and CEO, CloudExtel said, “The extensive consumption of multimedia-rich content and cloud applications are the new normal and will multiply with 5G offerings. In absence of shared RAN solutions, even 5G performance will get hampered in such congested locations, thus substantially compromising the user experience. Shared RAN solutions will become an architectural foundation for upcoming 5G deployments in the country”,
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