BROWSING: Open RAN

Reality or just a dream: how will AI, automation, and cloud technologies help communication service providers (CSPs) lower network energy costs 25% by 2025? How can cloud-native operations and CI/CD simplify and accelerate sustainability efforts for CSPs, especially in optimizing energy usage in the RAN? What...

With brownfield operators poised to scale Open RAN, Intel highlights the TCO benefits of Ethernet transport—availability, familiarity, flexibility https://youtu.be/9URxRZWYCXg A number of converging technological trends are reshaping how operators design, deploy and manage mobile networks. The push to cloud-native 5G Standalone will be key to unlocking...

Next March, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration's Institute for Telecommunications Science and the Department of Defense's FutureG Office will hold an invite-only event at which telecom companies and academic researchers will have a chance to demonstrate (not simulate) applications for the RAN Intelligent...

Nokia noticeably absent from AT&T's five-year effort to deploy commercial-scale open radio access networks AT&T is planning to spend roughly $14 billion over the next five years to shift 70% of its network traffic onto open and interoperable platforms, with the foundation provided by Ericsson. The...

On November 15, Red Hat hosted its fourth annual Open5G virtual event, with session tracks dedicated to open source advancements in 5G core, RAN, edge, cloud, AI, sustainability and more - discussed from the perspectives of over 25 leading service providers and key partners,...

SKT says it has improved the power consumption and processing capacity of virtual base stations Korea’s SK Telecom (SKT) is claiming advancements in the power consumption and processing capacity for Open RAN virtual base stations, resulting from its work with several industry partners including Samsung,...

Nokia will deploy its fully O-RAN-compliant 5G AirScale baseband solution in Docomo’s commercial network in Japan Finnish vendor Nokia announced that Japanese mobile operator NTT Docomo is deploying the former’s Open RAN (O-RAN) compliant 5G AirScale baseband solution, including centralized unit (CU) and distributed unit...

Nokia said the testing was carried out at its O-RAN Innovation Center in Dallas Finnish vendor Nokia announced that it has successfully completed interoperability testing with a Mavenir radio using the O-RAN Alliance 7-2x interface at Nokia’s Open RAN Innovation Center in Dallas, Texas. During the...

The RAN compute portfolio from Ericsson includes two high-capacity processors and two high-capacity, energy-efficient routers Ericsson has announced a new portfolio of RAN compute silicon that it is confident will support demanding 5G-Advanced and enhanced artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms, enabling communications service providers (CSPs) to...

OTICs are vendor-independent, open, and qualified labs approved by the O-RAN Alliance The O-RAN Alliance ecently accredited two new Open Testing and Integration Centers (OTIC) which adds to the existing O-RAN ecosystem. The O-RAN Alliance said in a release that the new OTICs are MITRE in...

Seed funding of $200,000 has been awarded by O-RAN Alliance to the Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things at Northeastern University The O-RAN Alliance announced the result of its call for proposals for seed funding of platforms that support research and development of next...

Fujitsu said the SoftBank deployment included the former's next-generation optical transmission platform "1 FINITY Ultra Optical System T900" Japanese telecommunications operator SoftBank recently completed the nationwide deployment, in core areas, of an all-optical network, using a disaggregated architecture optical transmission system that supports open networks,...

VIAVI is collaborating with different industry players like NTT DoCoMo to enable simplification and efficiencies with Open RAN NTT DoCoMo is using the VIAVI Solutions test suite for end-to-end testing for its 5G Open RAN Ecosystem (OREX), which was launched last year and is designed to...

Telecom Infra Project Executive Director Kristian Toivo comes on the show to reflect on key learnings form the recent TIP-hosted Fyuz event in Madrid, in particular the industrialization of Open RAN. In addition to looking how buy-in from incumbent vendors can accelerate Open RAN...

Testing will first be carried out technologies at a lab in Munich, and then in a commercial 5G network in Landsberg am Lech Samsung Electronics and O2 Telefónica are jointly trialing advanced cloud-native virtualized Radio Access Network (vRAN) and Open RAN technologies in several lab and...

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 Chinese vendors, as well...

NEC explained that the Project NAVIGATE aims to design, deploy, test and validate a blueprint for deploying open and sharable, public mobile 4G and 5G capacity in High Density Deployment (HDD) environments NEC and Freshwave have been selected for Project NAVIGATE in the U.K. government's...

Wireless operators are devoting significant attention to deployments of indoor 5G coverage for large venues, transportation hubs, commercial developments and other high-density public or semi-public spaces. Since the majority of cellular traffic originates indoors, this is hardly surprising; macro networks have difficulty penetrating indoor...

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 Open RAN RIC, or...

This week, Geetha Ram, the head of telco compute at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, tells a story about her grandmother, details the relationship between Open RAN and AI and explains the difference between in-line and look-aside acceleration for Open RAN silicon. https://soundcloud.com/rcrwirelessnews/well-technically-open-ran-has-moved-from-hype-to-execution-ep-109?si=4793b992c15b477f8c5403dd103fcbd6&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Open RAN enables intelligent, data-driven RAN optimization and control, according to an ABI Research analyst Whether improving the power efficiency of mobile networks is truly the “highest priority” for operators, as Saqlain Ali, senior analyst at ABI Research, claimed at Open RAN Forum, it...

Parallel Wireless confirmed it would expand its U.K.-based team U.S. Open RAN (O-RAN) company Parallel Wireless said it has won the U.K.’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT)’s Open Network Competition (ONE) with its project AURA (Agile Universal Radio Architecture). Parallel Wireless said this...

Vodafone deployed the U.K.'s first 5G Open RAN site in Bath, Somerset in January 2022 Vodafone Group this week said it will introduce Open RAN in Italy through a pilot program. The carrier completed a series of 4G calls over a cluster of shared commercial...

Panelists at the Open RAN Forum discuss how Open RAN is helping solve some of the biggest non-terrestrial 5G hurdles At this year’s Open RAN Forum, Cambridge Consultants’ Director of Wireless Technology Tim Rogers asserted that Open RAN architecture “accelerates the development of high-value, novel...