Samsung, Ciena Partner on 5G ‘Solution Set’

Samsung Electronics and Ciena agreed to partner on a “combined 5G solution set” for rendering faster, “pre-validated” network deployments, they said Wednesday. The companies will collaborate on hardware and software for network operators “to support the increasing volume of 5G data traffic at the edge and within an increasingly distributed 5G architecture,” they said. It's an “end-to-end solution set” that includes Ciena’s xHaul routing and switching portfolio and its next-generation manage, control and plan domain controller, plus Samsung’s Core and radio access network portfolio, including virtualized RAN solutions, baseband units and radios.