Economic advantages of virtualizing the RAN in mobile operators' infrastructures

Distributed virtual infrastructures for CSPs will benefit materially from the use of elastic, horizontal cloud designs. They enable a 30% lower total cost of ownership than silo based deployments in 4G mobile core deployments, according to ACG Research. Red Hat has been a leader in evolving the open source operating system and cloud software distributions it includes in its portfolio to support NFV and cloud-native designs in operators’ networks, according to the analyst firm.