Vodafone CEO describes sale as part of “right-sizing” effort Vodafone is existing the highly-competitive Spanish market with the sale of its business there to Zegona Communications. According to Vodafone, it’s receiving €4.1 billion in cash and €900,000,000 in “redeemable preference …
Major multinational European carriers have publicly and repeatedly expressed intent to deploy Open RAN at scale. This is driven by a number of factors chief among them the need to comply with national-level regulations concerning the replacement of equipment from …
Editor’s note: Qualcomm provided travel, lodging and other accommodations associated with Snapdragon Summit. HAWAII—With the launch of its ambitious Oryon CPU for PCs and plan to embed the 12-core powerhouse across its business segments, Qualcomm is changing. Whereas previous iterations …
The Oryon CPU is part of the Snapdragon X Elite SoC which is positioned to make Qualcomm an even more major player in the PC category Editor’s note: Qualcomm provided travel, lodging and other accommodations associated with Snapdragon Summit. HAWAII–Former …
Softbank telco AI strategy includes working with NVIDIA on network automation and adding AI overhead into 5G RAN compute As interest and investment in artificial intelligence has reached a fever pitch, NVIDIA has emerged as the undisputed leader in using …
The Open RAN conversation has evolved from a narrow focus on the nuts and bolts of making a multi-vendor radio system work, to operationalizing these systems and layering in app-based automation processes. To the automation point, this is where the …
Experts see the Open RAN RIC supporting energy and spectral efficiency, service differentiation and more In an Open RAN network, the RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) is, in some circles at least, viewed as the brains of the network–the thing that …
Intel sees the combination of 5G and AI as “transforming dreams into reality” Intel has been an ecosystem and market leader as operators turn to new virtualized and open 5G RAN architectures. With silicon support, partnerships and reference designs for …
Understand the key requirements for establishing a CI/CD/CT pipeline to manage Open RAN Beyond just opening up radio system interfaces to connect hardware and software components from different vendors, one of the big ideas of Open RAN is the parallel …
A Q&A with Dish’s Sidd Chenumolu on the public cloud, network programmability and the role of the RIC Dish Wireless has reached major coverage milestones in its effort to build out a nationwide Standalone 5G network using Open RAN principles. …
While Open RAN vendors are focused on hardware/software disaggregation and interoperability, operators also need RAN reaggregation As commercial Open RAN deployments, particularly in brownfield network environments, begin to ramp, the longstanding focus on ensuring interoperability between disaggregated radio hardware and …
As brownfield Open RAN deployments pick up and interoperability processes are refined, questions around fiber expense and massive MIMO still dog the ecosystem Open RAN has come a long way since the days of the xRAN Forum and C-RAN Alliance. …
Keysight updates on Open RAN innovations and the testing processes behind them Open RAN contains multitudes. It’s an ideological movement grounded in the belief that a diverse radio supplier ecosystem begets competitions which begets advantageous economics which begets more and …
Buy-in from incumbent vendors could catalyze Open RAN deployment With Dell’Oro Group estimating that Open RAN manufacturer revenues accounted for a mid-single digit share ($2 billion to $3 billion) of the total $40 billion annual RAN market in 2022, analyst …
Rakuten Symphony talks Open RAN benefits and bringing radio disaggregation to brownfield network environments Beginning in 2018, Rakuten Mobile, a subsidiary of Japanese conglomerate Rakuten Group, started deploying a greenfield Open RAN network. Since then, Rakuten Group has also spun …
Call center analytics and customer interactions among key telco AI use cases being discussed in boardrooms In the latest of our ongoing Telco AI Deep Dive series, Capgemini Americas Principal and NA Lead, AI & Analytics, Ajay Mohan draws on …
Part of the vision of Open RAN has been creating specifications and ecosystem alignment resulting in what is effectively a plug-and-play radio system. However, the reality today, and the near-term outlook, show this isn’t the case; system integration is and …
Data-driven, software-first operations are key to telco AI success Greenfield Japanese operator Rakuten Mobile, alongside its spin-off network equipment and software vendor Rakuten Symphony, has always done things in a markedly different way as compared to legacy telcos. Instead of …
Design, data, network and organizational strategies are key to effective telco AI adoption Under its current CEO, IBM has put artificial intelligence (AI)—along with hybrid cloud, automation and security—at the center of its software and services strategies. Speaking with RCR …
The Dell PowerEdge XE9680 GPU-enabled AI server is the “fastest ramping” new solution in the company’s history, COO Jeff Clarke said After laying out a robust artificial intelligence (AI) strategy covering infrastructure and services across its businesses during Dell Technologies …
Cisco Silicon One being used by hyperscalers to build AI/ML compute clusters In what CEO Chuck Robbins called a “milestone year,” Cisco this week reported fourth quarter earnings of $15.2 billion, up 16% year-on-year. Software revenue was up 17% year-over-year …
Intel talks the importance of a robust Open RAN/vRAN ecosystem Intel’s Kartik Srinivasan, senior director of product for Intel Ethernet, views virtualized and Open RAN as “game changer” that will only benefit from ongoing vendor-led work to muck through interoperability …
With the rise of ChatGPT and other generative AI tools, artificial intelligence is having a major moment. The march to network automation to reduce OpEx and generate new revenues comes with complexity that can’t be managed by humans. In RCR Wireless …
While private 5G is poised to deliver major benefits to enterprise users, there are a number of complexities to deploying 5G alongside existing connectivity mediums, including 3G, 4G and Wi-Fi. In the context of private 5G for the shop floor …
Viavi outlines private Open RAN benefits and security complexities Beyond macro public networks, Open RAN could also support the variety of deployment configurations necessary for private enterprise networks. But just as Tier 1 operators have to guard against security incidents …
