Altera and China Mobile Research Institute announce joint efforts on next gen C-RAN wireless technologies

HONG KONG: Altera Corp. announced a  three-year strategic agreement with China Mobile Research Institute (CMRI) to research and prototype next generation of green wireless network  infrastructure solution  based on the Centralized Radio Access Network (C-RAN) architecture that leverages network function virtualization (NFV).

The agreement was signed on August 15 in Beijing, China, at the 2014 International Mobile Internet Conference, which is organized and sponsored by the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the three major Chinese operators including China Mobile.

Also at the event, Francis Chow, VP and GM of Altera’s Communications Business Unit,  presented  on how Altera FPGA technology is enabling green C-RAN architecture with an emphasis on performance, connectivity, and scalability.