Mavenir, in collaboration with the Rural Independent Network Alliance (RINA Wireless), is deploying a 5G upgradable mobile core architecture that supports existing 4G customers and provides a platform for a cost-efficient, low-touch, flexible path to a 5G standalone (SA) network.
RINA Wireless is deploying Mavenir’s future proof, cloud-native, small footprint containerised Evolved Packet Core (EPC), with a remote redundant User Plane Function (UPF). Mavenir’s solution is fully scalable and deployed on Mavenir’s Webscale Platform which is a highly adaptable and scalable framework to run microservices-based network functions. The solution uses software running on commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware that provides costeffectiveness, flexibility, and agility.
Mavenir’s EPC, part of the Converged Packet Core solution, enables the separation of the control and user plane allowing RINA Wireless to deploy remote gateways for managing local traffic breakouts, thereby reducing the costs of transport and latency. RINA Wireless now can expand mobile and fixed wireless access (FWA) services to new regions and remote locations such as Alaska.
Commenting on the development, Ashok Khuntia, general manager and EVP, Packet Compute, Mavenir, said, “We are extremely pleased to be working with RINA Wireless on this network upgrade project. Our focus here is to enable RINA Wireless to deploy future-proof cloud-enabled technology bringing reliable, cost-effective service and new connectivity to underserved rural America.”
Meanwhile, Allen Bennion, chief operating officer, RINA Wireless, said, “It is a great experience to work with the Mavenir team, they are committed to deliver an EPC that allows us to use open interfaces we can leverage to expand the number of regional carriers connected to our core.”
