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Parallel Wireless and Robin.io Expand Partnership to Transform Legacy RAN towards Webscale End-to-End Orchestration and Automation
NASHUA, N.H., Feb. 10, 2020 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/--

-- End-to-End Orchestration and Analytics Driven Automation to Reduce Cost of 
4G/5G Deployments and Maintenance of Wireless Networks

Parallel Wireless ( 
https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2714499-1&h=2365345651&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.parallelwireless.com%2F&a=Parallel+Wireless 
), the leader of All G OpenRAN, and Robin.io, the application automation 
platform company, today announced an extension of their 2018 partnership ( 
https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2714499-1&h=1673867805&u=https%3A%2F%2Frobin.io%2Fpress%2Fparallel-wireless-chooses-robin-systems%2F&a=2018+partnership 
) to help global Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) bring the benefits of 
automation in the webscale data center to the heterogeneous embedded systems 
environment of the RAN across 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G.

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MNOs have long wanted the promise of datacenter automation to deliver instant 
provisioning of complex VNF and CNF suites, self-optimization, self-healing and 
fast recovery. The reality is that using data center technologies in the RAN 
introduces a different type of operational complexity that MNOs need to solve.

Bringing together Parallel Wireless's pioneering cloud-native All G OpenRAN 
approach, complemented with Robin.io's industry-leading automation and 
lifecycle management platform for data center technologies such as containers 
and virtualized workload management, is making the much-anticipated promise of 
virtualization of RAN a reality.

The RAN has historically been dominated by embedded systems thinking, the 
shared vision is to instead bring to the RAN the billions of investments in 
webscale/cloud datacenter. As more datacenter servers are introduced to the 
RAN, MNOs will ultimately want a single orchestration platform to cover all 
devices versus managing multiple platforms whether it is RRH on a tower, 
real-time baseband at the edge, core services in the data center or on-prem 
enterprise 5G service devices. The Robin platform uniquely enables analytics 
driven automation of the widest range of heterogeneous "long-tail" 
provisioning, slicing, optimization, healing, scaling (in, out) and recovery 
scenarios to deliver on this single platform vision. Lastly, operators will 
have their preferred virtualization or container platform and Robin is designed 
to interoperate with all of them whether VMWare, Kubernetes, AWS, OpenStack, 
Whitestack, etc.

Steve Papa, CEO, Parallel Wireless, said, "When we started working with Robin 
in 2018 to automate the big data challenges in the network the use of V/CNFs in 
the RAN was in its infancy. Two years later, it's clear with the global OpenRAN 
movement that the RAN will soon be completely software-defined and implemented 
using cloud-native design patterns. Operators also need a platform that can 
provide end to end slicing of these heterogeneous resources. Only Robin.io 
could deliver on this vision." 

Jef Graham, CEO, Robin.io, said, "Mobile operators are quickly realizing the 
vital necessity of automation to manage the deployment and life cycle of 5G 
networks and network functions. Without massively scalable, cloud-native 
automation, the cost and complexity of running these networks quickly becomes 
untenable. Working with Parallel Wireless, Robin.io is delivering that 
automation, via application-and infrastructure-topology awareness technology 
that has been refined and proven."

Over the course of 2020 Parallel Wireless will introduce Robin optimized 
releases of Unified OpenRAN Controller software and Unified Edge Core software 
for automated, DevOps-enabled complex dynamically chained services. Edge Core's 
high throughput 4G, 5G and Wi-Fi services distributed at the edges of the 
network will be easily managed as a part of the RAN. This partnership will also 
enable seamless deployment for enterprise/private 4G/5G including hybrid 
MNO-enterprise solutions.

Demonstrations of the joint solution will be showcased at MWC, at the Parallel 
Wireless stand in Hall 5, Stand 5i5, and in AWS village, Atrium CC1, February 
24-27, in Barcelona.  

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 reimagines network 
economics for global mobile operators in both coverage and capacity 
deployments, while also paving the way to 5G. The company is engaged with 50+ 
leading operators worldwide. Parallel Wireless's innovation and excellence in 
multi-technology, open virtualized RAN solutions have been recognized with 65+ 
industry awards. For more information, visit: www.parallelwireless.com. Connect 
with Parallel Wireless on LinkedIn ( 
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) and Twitter ( 
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). 

About Robin.io 
Robin.io provides an application automation platform that enables enterprises 
to deliver complex application pipelines as a service. Built on 
industry-standard Kubernetes, the Robin platform allows developers and platform 
engineers to rapidly deploy and easily manage data- and network-centric 
applications—including big data, NoSQL and 5G—independent of underlying 
infrastructure resources. The Robin platform is used globally by companies 
including BNP Paribas, Palo Alto Networks, SAP, Sabre and USAA. Robin.io is 
headquartered in Silicon Valley, California. More at www.robin.io and Twitter: 
@robin4K8S.

SOURCE:  Parallel Wireless

CONTACT: Eugina Jordan
         VP, Marketing
         Parallel Wireless
         Ejordan@parallelwireless.com
         +1-978-660-8659
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