NEC Launches Open RAN Cloud-Native Virtualized Software Suite

NEC’s vCU/vDU software suite leverages the company’s long history of technological leadership and commitment to improving Open Radio Access Networks (RAN).
NEC Open Networks is an ecosystem that provides operators with choice in every category with best-of-breed solutions and services from both NEC and its partners in Open RAN radio units, software, open transport, converged packet core, automation, and orchestration.
This new vCU/vDU software suite guarantees seamless migration from 4G to 5G and beyond. It also ensures standards based interfaces for integration with ORAN Radio Units (O-RUs) and other components of the multi-vendor ecosystem. The virtualized CU/DU features pre-integrated NEC radio units, core, and transport blueprints, and is also certified with a range of third-party RUs, allowing quick time to market.
The cloud-native vCU/vDU software suite is fully open and automated for deployment and consolidated operation, supporting 3GPP and O-RAN interfaces on private and public cloud infrastructure. It leverages the benefits of cloud-native architecture, including horizontal and vertical scaling, auto-healing, and redundancy; and is architected for mobile network evolution, including the next-generation radio technologies (i.e., 5G-Advanced and 6G). The high-performance, power-efficient system enables flexible control over resource allocation in the RAN and is designed for easy integration with the O-RAN defined near-Real Time RAN Intelligent Controller. This allows the embedded vCU/vDU control logic with Artificial Intelligent (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) to dynamically optimize RAN network performance.
NEC’s advanced, customizable Service Management and Orchestration (SMO) feature-set complements NEC’s OvRAN offering with the NEC RAN Domain Orchestrator Suite. Its support for open, standardized interfaces and integrated non-Real Time RIC platform means that it can host use-cases developed by 3rd party application ecosystem vendors. NEC is also developing high value-add RIC Apps to complement its OvRAN vCU/vDU software suite such as dynamic mMIMO (massive multiple-input and multiple-output) resource and power optimization.
You might also like...
Remote Contribution At NAB 2025
The technology required to get high quality content from the venue to the viewer for live sports production remains an area of intense research and development, so there will be plenty of innovation and expertise in this area on the…
Playout Monitoring & Compliance At NAB 2025
Automation, interoperability, and scaling are overarching themes at NAB 2025, associated with continued progression of hybrid video services that are tilting more and more towards streaming. For monitoring and compliance, this means increasing integration across the whole workflow and content lifecycle,…
Streaming Delivery At NAB 2025
Hybrid workflows combining cloud and on-premise systems, and application of AI for personalization, are major streaming themes for NAB 2025. There is an even stronger focus on remote production than at previous shows, especially for live sports. Security of live streams…
OTA TV Transmission At NAB 2025
It is time to consider the state of the US TV Transmission industry and how this might be reflected on the NAB 2025 show floor.
Channel Creation & Playout At NAB 2025
Playout is moving to the public cloud as broadcasters take this next step in their strategies for master control, even as some analytics functions are being drawn back towards on premise systems. This will be reflected by the offerings and…