India, Feb. 21 -- Nokia, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT), and Anritsu Corporation have successfully conducted a proof of concept (PoC) demonstrating the effectiveness of Elastic networking in reducing energy consumption in mobile networks.

Developed under the Innovative Optical and Wireless Network (IOWN) Global Forum architecture, the All-Photonics Network (APN) was successfully applied to the mobile fronthaul between the antenna unit (Radio Unit, RU) and the control unit (Distributed Unit, DU) of a 5G RAN base station. "This demonstrated that dynamic rerouting of the mobile fronthaul is possible by using the IOWN APN," NTT stated in its press release.

"The validation paves the way for the widespread adoption of Elastic networking...