Internet para Todos Peru (Telefonica, Facebook, CAF and BID joint company) Deploys Hundreds of Parallel Wireless OpenRAN Sites in Latin America

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NASHUA, New Hampshire, March 2, 2020 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

    -- Data Center Automation Vision Reduces Deployment Costs and Speeds up the

Development and Deployment Lifecycle of the Network

Parallel Wireless, Inc., the leading U.S.-based OpenRAN company, today

announced that they deployed hundreds of programmable virtualized 4G OpenRAN

sites to deliver mobile broadband in Latin America through Internet para Todos

Peru (IpT Peru), a new company launched in May 2019 and owned by Telefonica,

Facebook, IDB Invest and CAF banks. IpT Peru aims to provide internet

connectivity to users in remote regions of Peru. Traditionally, high investment

and operational cost and the deployment complexity of low-density deployments

have prevented MNOs from bringing coverage to these areas. And, technological

evolution has focused on scaling capacity for urban rather than on creating

efficient downscaled solutions in areas with lower population.

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As of today, IpT Peru has deployed hundreds of new sites in Peru using Parallel

Wireless fully virtualized and automated OpenRAN architecture.

The technology brings much more flexibility and agility to the deployment and

management of a telco access network. The Parallel Wireless OpenRAN Controller

creates a multi-vendor, multi-operator, open ecosystem of interoperable

components for the various RAN elements and from different vendors. All new

radio units are self-configured by the software, reducing the need for manual

intervention. The self-optimization capability automates optimization across

different RANs in IpT Peru's network, utilizing available RAN data from all RAN

types (macros and small cells). This creates an open business model, where MNOs

can partner with local companies that focus on rural coverage to enable lean

cost structure that fits the business case of targeting the long tail of the

unconnected and operational simplicity.  

However, openness and virtualization also come with incremental levels of

complexity that has to be managed to capture the value and not create new

problems for operators. With this objective IpT Peru, Telefonica and Parallel

Wireless have defined and implemented an operating model built on the

principles of the data center with continuous integration and continuous

delivery (CI/CD) that helps to accelerate taking new functionalities to  the

market faster and safer than ever before, in an easy and automated way. This

approach has helped to establish a new operating model to reduce IpT Peru's

OPEX, to be able to manage much faster product lifecycles and to speed up the

deployment of new applications for coverage and capacity scenarios.

The predictive and automated CI/CD based-approach devised by Telefonica and

utilized to certify the Parallel Wireless 4G OpenRAN Controller and network

software suite, in contrast to the legacy reactive optimization approach,

improves time-to-market of new software features and user experience.

Supporting quotes

Renan Ruiz, CTO, IpT

"We have selected Parallel Wireless OpenRAN to help us reduce our network

deployment costs through disaggregation of hardware and software, RAN and core

virtualization and network automation with real-time SON for deployments across

Latin America and 5G readiness. Telefonica was a pioneer in adopting

cloud-native architectures and CI/CD models. With continuous delivery and

deployment enabled by Parallel Wireless software, we are able to automate

network deployments, make it an easy, push-button operation to deliver in our

network the newest features and the newest functions. That allows us to give

our customers new capabilities at the speed of software."

Steve Papa, Founder and CEO of Parallel Wireless

"As one of the innovative communication providers, Telefonica understands the

true potential of software, virtualization, and openness. We are proud to have

been selected for these deployments in Latin America to deliver quality

wireless services to the end users and businesses through better communication

and collaboration between "development" and "operations" groups by enabling the

CI/CD based operating model. The end goal is to help global MNOs build and

release software at high velocity. without making extensive capital investments

or incur ongoing maintenance cost associated with legacy network deployments.

This will result in MNOs becoming fully virtualized telcos based on CI/CD

models to automate deployments, save OPEX, and deliver new services faster."

About Parallel Wireless

Parallel Wireless is the only U.S.-based company challenging the world's legacy

vendors with the industry's only unified ALL G (5G/4G/3G/2G) software-enabled

OpenRAN solution. Its cloud-native network software redefines network economics

for global mobile operators in both coverage and capacity deployments, while

also paving the way to 5G. The company is engaged with 60+ leading operators

worldwide. Parallel Wireless's innovation and excellence in multi-technology,

open virtualized RAN solutions have been recognized with 70+ industry awards.

For more information, visit: www.parallelwireless.com. Connect with Parallel

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SOURCE  Parallel Wireless

CONTACT: Eugina Jordan, VP, Marketing, Parallel Wireless,

Ejordan@parallelwireless.com, 978-660-8659