AirHop successfully deploys Reliance Jio's SON

AirHop Communications today announced the successful deployment of JioSON, Reliance Jio’s SON solution powered by AirHop’s eSON360 product, which supports Jio’s pan India LTE network, the largest all-IP network in the world.

Jio has created the largest state-of-the-art all-IP wireless broadband network to digitize India and deliver broadband to over 1 billion citizens. Jio has experienced unprecedented success since its commercial launch on September 5th, 2016, attracting more than 100 million subscribers in 170 days. 

Part of the network’s success is attributed to a focus on automating the Jio broadband network, enabling rapid and effective configuration and optimization of Jio’s heterogeneous network. Jio continues to accelerate its plan to a zero-touch, automated, high-performance network that delivers an exceptional customer experience.

eSON360 powers Reliance Jio’s SON solution and enables Jio to quickly expand its network in a cost- effective way while providing a high-quality customer experience to its fast-growing subscriber base. eSON360 is a highly scalable platform that leverages a state-of-the-art software architecture that is always responsive, resilient and elastic to the network environment, achieving a virtualized solution that fits well in SDN/NFV frameworks.

Mathew Oommen, president, Reliance Jio said, "AirHop has been a great technology partner throughout our network launch where automation and self-healing were introduced to remove interference, offering higher spectral efficiency within the LTE network.”

eSON360 enables Jio to optimize its network performance in real-time, delivering multi-cell coordination of network resources, optimized coverage, capacity, and mobility while adapting to the ever-changing network environment. In addition, eSON360 provides a true multi-vendor real-time SON solution that enables Jio to deploy across it RAN vendor base to achieve a common SON approach.

Yan Hui, CEO and co-founder of AirHop Communications said, "To date, Jio has achieved impressive improvements from eSON360 in key network performance and customer experience parameters. Through Jio’s continued leadership, more capabilities, based on the eSON360 software platform, will emerge through continued innovation in big data analytics for greater network insight, predictability, and automation. We are working with Jio to improve user experiences and prepare for the continued evolution of their network.”