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#WirelessWednesday – Is there a minimum floor area or population that the business case for implementing the SDN Radio Router™ becomes beneficial?

Generally speaking, the solution shines when the complexity is high with multi-operators, -frequency-bands, and –standards. In addition, an environment with fluctuating capacity and coverage needs or an environment with high traffic density is beneficial as well. For example, stadiums, campus, airports, and shopping centers are among the venues with dynamic capacity requirements.

In fact, the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) goes beyond the initial capital expenditure (CAPEX). It also includes the ongoing operational costs (OPEX) including maintenance, servicing, repairs, modernization, and most importantly, configuration changes to keep pace with the network growth. With traffic growth and the associated growing capacity needs, the incremental OPEX for the SDN Radio Router™ solution shows only a sub-linear increase. This is mainly due to the economies of scale achieved with capacity routing mechanisms combined with the ability to pool baseband and radio resources from multiple base stations from the same or multiple locations. With additional mobile operators, frequency bands and even capacity needs, the radio distribution network of the SDN Radio Router is unaffected. The SDN Radio Router simply re-distributes the newly available capacity in parallel to the existing among the connected radio units.

For more information on the TCO of SDN Radio Router, please download the whitepaper.

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