The Open RAN market is seeing a second tough year
After starting off with rapid growth, Open RAN technology took a plunge during 2023 and has continued to struggle during the course of 2024, according to new analysis from Dell'Oro Group.
"2024 is so far...
The O-RAN Alliance was developed to drive advancements in RAN by separating the management and control plane from the user data processing plane
3GPP Radio Access Network (RAN) technology has evolved from the second through third, fourth and fifth generations, to significantly increase air-interface efficiency...
From greenfield to brownfield Open RAN— “We’ve achieved another major step in the development process.”
At the Fyuz event in Dublin, Ireland, Dr. Anna Zakrzewska, senior principal engineer for Dell Technologies’ Telecom Systems Business, provided a detailed look at the evolution of Open RAN and...
The pair claim Liberty is the first telco to in Puerto Rico and Latin America to introduce 5G vRAN and Open RAN tech
Puerto Rican operator Liberty is collaborating with Samsung Networks Latin America to test the vendor’s O-RAN compliant virtualized Radio Access Network (vRAN) and radios in Puerto Rico. The companies claim Liberty is the first telco to in Puerto Rico and...
Under the deal, Nokia will supply equipment from its O-RAN-compliant 5G AirScale portfolio
Nokia announced that it has been awarded more than 3,000 sites by German carrier Deutsche Telekom (DT) to support the operator’s multi-vendor Open RAN (O-RAN) network in Germany.
The deal, which includes Japanese...
In their journey to Open RAN, most tier-one CSPs have launched commercial deployments, consolidating partnerships with the remaining vendors in the ecosystem. Greenfield and brownfield networks, rural and urban deployments, offer diverse models from which the ecosystem must draw lessons to build blueprints. From...
Hughes said that the 5G O-RAN network will feature a RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC)
EchoStar Corporation said that its subsidiary Hughes Network Systems was awarded a $6.5 million contract to deploy a 5G Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) prototype at Fort Bliss in El Paso,...
The Open RAN DAS system has been deployed at The University of Texas Moody Center and the Austin Convention Center
Verizon has deployed the first Open RAN (O-RAN) based Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS) systems with multiple vendor interoperability in its network at The University of...
Did Open RAN deliver on the technological and market-based promises it was meant to bring to? Tough question. And what were those initial promises again? We went back through the O-RAN Alliance archives to a white paper published in October 2018. At that time,...
End-to-end fronthaul testing, as well as isolation testing, provide the big picture and granular data needed to drive Open RAN adoption
Given one of the primary goals of Open RAN—providing architectural flexibility by breaking up the centralized unit (CU), distributed unit (DU) and radio unit...
The RIC can support quick wins but further standardization, and a more coherent approach to AI/ML integration, is needed to foster trust
Back to this idea referenced in the introduction—how to leverage Open RAN interfaces for real-world innovation—it all comes down to the RAN Intelligent...
Viettel said it will deploy more than 300 sites across various Vietnamese provinces by the first quarter of 2025
Vietnamese telco Viettel announced the commercial launch of its Open RAN (O-RAN) 5G network using a platform provided by Qualcomm Technologies, the company said in a...
Open RAN technology is proven and operators are committed, but the lingering questions around integration costs and lifecycle management in a multi-vendor network remain
A panel comprising a leading Open RAN vendor, a leading Open RAN test firm, and a major global operator dissected the...
Editor's note: This article is a follow-on to “5G Energy Efficiency Metrics, Models and Systems Tests” which was published by RCR Wireless News on August 28, 2024
Introduction
The Aether SMaRT-5G initiative (originally started by the Open Networking Foundation (ONF)), is focused on research...
CommScope sees market opportunity, TCO, ecosystem support and convergence all making the case for in-building Open RAN
Reflecting on the typical 10-year cellular generation cycle, as well as the roughly 20-year lifecycle of a G, CommScope’s Luigi Tarlazzi, vice president of engineering, pointed out that...
Ericsson noted that the project will run in parallel with the deployment of Ericsson-powered 5G Standalone in rural areas of Spain
Ericsson and MasOrange, Spain’s largest mobile operator as a result of the merger between local carriers Orange Spain and Masmovil, have announced a major...
Wind River says the match-up with Rakuten Symphony will deliver more flexibility and choice for operators
Edge software provider Wind River announced this week a collaboration with Rakuten Symphony to accelerate telco adoption of Open RAN technology. Rakuten Symphony has expanded its partner ecosystem for Open RAN 4G and 5G...
The radio access network consumes, by far, the majority of power needed to operate mobile networks. Given the reality operators are facing—pressing needs to reduce operational costs while working towards long-term climate action goals without sacrificing network performance—more energy efficient RAN is a key...
Among the most celebrated principles in the Open RAN paradigm, softwarization and disaggregation have taken center stage in discussions on the commercialization and deployment of O-RAN systems. A less frequently discussed principle that these two elements enable is programmability — the ability to dynamically...
Open RAN revenue dropped by 83% in 2024 compared with 2023. Whoa. Let’s take a closer look at that. Why did revenue crater? And how will it bounce back?
During ’22 and the first half of ’23, DISH was spending heavily, deploying radios to satisfy...
Samsung said that the O-RAN deployment for Japanese telco KDDI will start next year
Korean vendor Samsung Electronics has been selected by Japanese operator KDDI as a main vendor to provide 4G and 5G Open RAN (O-RAN) compliant virtualized Radio Access Network (vRAN) solutions for...
Testing the various components of Open Radio Access Networks—the open control unit, distributed unit and radio unit, or O-CU, O-DU and O-RU—has been the focus of multiple plugfests and other extensive testing as operators, vendors and test companies work out the intricacies of interoperability,...
Elisa currently covers 95% of Finland’s population with 5G
Finnish telecom operator Elisa now covers 95% of Finland’s population with 5G and has plans to expand the coverage even further in the coming years, the telco's Head of Mobile Access Tiina Höckert told RCR Wireless...
Ericsson rApp strategy is focused on network automation, deployment, evolution, healing and optimization
As operators continue to push toward large-scale Open RAN deployments, a North Star is this idea of using open radio access networks as decentralized platforms for innovation. What this means, we...
In March 2020, Docomo commercialized what it claimed to be the world's first Open RAN-based 5G network
Japanese carrier NTT Docomo said that it is currently using Open RAN (O-RAN) with the main aim of enhancing network flexibility and cost efficiency, the telco told RCR...
