Market Share of C-RAN Industry
The cloud radio access network market is fragmented, and the intensity of competitive rivalry is high due to the significant growth in strategic collaborations. The demand from the buyers has actively led the incumbents to invest in solutions and keep the contracts intact; some of the key players in the market are Cisco Systems Inc., Nokia Corporation, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd, Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, and Intel Corporation.
- In October 2023, Nokia and Elisa declared that they had completed the industry's first trial of Cloud RAN, which was powered by In-Line acceleration. The successful trial occurred at Elisa's headquarters in Finland, where it utilized its commercial 5G Standalone RAN and 5G Core. The trial mainly builds on Nokia's anyRAN approach, which was established to ensure the feature richness, energy efficiency, and high performance of Cloud RAN compared to purpose-built RAN. Using In-Line layer 1 (L1) acceleration ensures each of these aspects while allowing flexibility to select between x86 and ARM-based ecosystems.
- In September 2023, Ericsson and Google expanded their partnership with Google Cloud to develop an Ericsson Cloud RAN solution on Google Distributed Cloud (GDC). As per Ericsson, the partnership to develop an Ericsson Cloud RAN on GDC aims to offer integrated automation and orchestration and leverage AI /ML for communications service providers to benefit from. The partners successfully demonstrated the complete implementation of the Ericsson vDU (virtualized distributed unit) and vCU (virtualized central unit) on GDC Edge, running the solution on a live network in the Ericsson Open Lab in Ottawa, Canada.
Cloud Radio Access Network Market Leaders
Cisco System Inc.
Nokia Corporation
Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson
Intel Corporation
*Disclaimer: Major Players sorted in no particular order
