AirHop Communications has supplied its eSON360 product to Reliance Jio for the deployment of JioSON, a SON solution, for powering the largest all-IP network in the world.
Jio has attracted more than 100 million subscribers in 170 days since its commercial launch on September 5, 2016. Factors such as automating the Jio broadband network, enabling configuration and optimization of Jio’s heterogeneous network contributed to the success of the 4G network in India.
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Jio is benefitting from a zero-touch, automated, high-performance network. The technology company said eSON360 powers Reliance Jio’s SON solution enabling Jio to expand its network in a cost- effective manner.
The scalable eSON360 platform leverages a software architecture that is always responsive, resilient and elastic to the network environment, achieving a virtualized solution that fits well in SDN/NFV frameworks.
“Traditional operators are typically slow to respond to customer demand, with long lead times for new services and capacity. Jio has been able to fundamentally change this paradigm by delivering broadband connectivity and a suite of rich media services and content to an unprecedented number of users in record time,” said Mathew Oommen, president of Reliance Jio.
AirHop has introduce automation and self-healing to remove interference, offering higher spectral efficiency within the LTE network.
The company said eSON360 enables Jio to optimize its network performance in real-time, delivering multi-cell coordination of network resources, optimized coverage, capacity, and mobility while adapting to the ever-changing network environment.
eSON360 provides a multi-vendor real-time SON solution that enables Jio to deploy across it RAN vendor base to achieve a common SON approach.
eSON360 delivers flexibility in deployment topology, enabling JioSON to be deployed across already existing data centers spread throughout India. In addition, eSON360 dynamically scales to the size of the network deployment and provides additional flexibility and robustness through embedded load balancing and real-time process monitoring.
“The success of Jio’s commercial network deployment is the first fruit of its unyielding commitment to build a data and cloud centric network through innovation,” said Yan Hui, CEO and co-founder of AirHop Communications.
