“…Analog transport is also capable natively of supporting multiple RAN technologies from different vendors, and for different mobile operators, without interoperability issues, sharing antennas and a single fiber infrastructure (as used in Distributed Antenna Systems) [11], [12]. Thus, analog transport has gained renewed interest for the fronthaul of the 5G (and beyond) RAN [9], [16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24]. Analog Radio-over-Fiber (RoF) can transport multiplexes of the radio signals' bandwidths, using their different carrier frequencies, or through translation to different intermediate frequencies (necessary for MIMO, when the radio signals are at the same frequency), by Subcarrier Multiplexing (SCM).…”