What is a key advantage of deploying Cloud RAN in dense urban areas?

Deploying Cloud RAN in dense urban areas offers significant advantages, particularly in enhancing capacity to support high user density. In urban environments where the concentration of users is high, traditional radio access network architectures can struggle to provide sufficient capacity and efficient service. Cloud RAN leverages cloud computing resources, enabling dynamic resource allocation and deployment of various network functions closer to the users.

This proximity reduces the distance signals must travel, optimizing bandwidth utilization and ensuring more efficient distribution of network resources. As a result, multiple users can be served simultaneously without a degradation in service quality, accommodating the demands of high data traffic typical in populated areas. This is crucial for supporting applications that require high bandwidth and low latency, such as video streaming and real-time gaming, which are prevalent in urban settings.

The other options, while they may seem beneficial, do not capture the primary advantage offered by Cloud RAN in densely populated areas as effectively as the enhanced capacity does.