Description

Each new technology—such as Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), Centralized Radio Access Network (C-RAN) and the emerging fronthaul network—risks creating more instances of telecom’s most persistent hurdle: operational silos. One company focusing on the challenge of providing end-to-end visibility in next-generation networks, and thus aimed at breaking down silos, is InfoVista.

The company recently released an Xhaul and C-RAN service assurance solution for this purpose. InfoVista believes it can centralize and unite the fronthaul, backhaul, and C-RAN segments of the network from a service assurance perspective; and provide the coveted and necessary complete picture of network and service performance.

This report examines the preparatory approach to 5G by assuring C-RAN and Xhaul solutions.