Alcatel-Lucent and China Mobile have signed a joint memorandum of understanding to pursue developments in next-gen mobile communications including further co-development around Alcatel-Lucent’s lightRadio technology.
The partnership agreement was signed by Alcatel-Lucent China president Romano Valussi and China Mobile research institute president Bill Huang in Beijing.
Alcatel-Lucent said the research collaboration between the two companies will establish the framework to jointly explore: the evolution of mobile network architectures leveraging and integrating China Mobile’s Cloud-RAN and Alcatel-Lucent’s lightRadio and advanced antennas technology.
In addition, both the companies will explore the evolution of core network structure on the basis of network virtualisation; and develop technologies and approaches for alternative energy use to achieve green ICT.
Alcatel-Lucent CEO Ben Verwaayen said the vital collaborative agreement will bring together two industry leaders, using joint research, to bring new breakthroughs to market at what they call ‘the speed of ideas’.
China Mobile chairman Wang Jianshou said co-development with Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs will benefit evolving their network technology to support the next generation of mobile-based applications, experiences, economies, and social networks.
