BROWSING: Mavenir

While the UK decision to ban Huawei from national 5G infrastructure does not, as it stands, cover the China-based firm’s ability to supply private cellular to UK enterprises, it will effectively disrupt its involvement in the space – and its scope may yet expand...

UK based telecoms provider Vilicom has struck a deal with Danish power company Ørsted to design and deploy an LTE network at its Hornsea Two offshore wind farm. On completion, in 2022, Hornsea Two will be the largest offshore wind farm in the world. The...

Spending on private and shared enterprise networks will surpass spending on public cellular networks in about 15 years. The traditional operator community has a fight on its hands to guarantee a place at the table, as the new Industry 4.0 networking feast unfolds over...

The virtualization of cellular networks has been ongoing for some time. But virtualizing the Radio Access Network (RAN) has always been an enigma and was the final frontier for the trend. The rising star of 5G infrastructure business—Samsung—jumped on to the virtualized RAN (vRAN)...

Open RAN, as the name implies, is meant to be open to multiple vendors, both hardware and software, that work together to achieve interoperability in accordance with an operator's needs. But as incumbent radio vendors like Nokia throw out terms like "open but integrated,"...

Open RAN vendors organizing to have radios ready to replace rural Huawei kit The open RAN hits keep on coming with key players Altiostar and Mavenir this morning they will work together with equipment OEMs to develop radio units compatible with the frequency bands used...

Nokia collaborated with other vendors in Rakuten Mobile's network build Earlier this month the Open RAN Policy Coalition launched with a number of open RAN vendors, naturally, and operator members, including AT&T, DISH, NTT, Telefonica, Verizon and Vodafone. None of the big three RAN vendors--Ericsson,...

Dish: 'An OpenRAN architecture provides the opportunity to utilize “a diverse technology ecosystem' Now that the Sprint/T-Mobile merger has officially been finalized, Dish Network is on its way to being one of the big four U.S. mobile operators. As part of its plan to develop...

Turkcell has already virtualized 60% of its mobile core services In March, Mavenir and Turkey’s largest mobile operator Turkcell partnered up to test and deploy OpenRAN vRAN, beginning with trials of fully containerized CU/DU and Open FH with Split 7.2 and the deployment of the...

Secured and Trusted Network Communications Act targets rip-and-replace of Huawei, ZTE network equipment President Trump on March 12 signed into law the Secured and Trusted Network Communications Act, which among other things, will provide up to $1 billion in funding to rip-and-replace network infrastructure primarily...

Can 5G truly scale without a shift in network economics and collaborative development?  5G is billed as a revolutionary technology that will change consumer behavior and disrupt enterprises of all stripes. We’re currently in the very early days of commercial 5G so these paradigm-altering impacts...

O2 expects the commercial deployment of OpenRAN to accelerate over the next 18-24 months O2, the U.K. operator owned by Telefonica, will work with Mavenir, DenseAir and WaveMobile to deploy 4G and 5G networks over OpenRAN solutions in dense environments and more isolated rural communities....

Mavenir announces availability of 4G/5G open RAN solution This week Richardson, Texas-based vendor Mavenir announced the "launch and availability" of a 4G- and 5G-compatible virtualized radio access network solution based on open interfaces developed by the O-RAN Alliance, a cross-industry group of carriers, vendors and...

Report: Carriers will follow traditional DAS approach to large venues; open RAN a big opportunity for enterprise connectivity This is by no means new information but worth repeating: Carriers almost exclusively invest in in-building wireless systems for large venues like stadiums and transit hubs. For...

Multi-vendor, open RAN deployment from NTT DoCoMo highlights momentum For mobile network operators looking to upgrade to 5G, the vendor community is dominated by a limited number of end-to-end suppliers. Aside from the obvious economics this paradigm prescribes, in a software-defined, 5G world, this lack...

A cloud-first strategy takes cost out of 5G, setting the stage for profitability SINGAPORE--To be clear, neither Reliance Jio in India or Rakuten in Japan currently offer 5G services. In fact, Rakuten recently delayed the launch of its LTE network. Nevertheless, the two operators have...

Mavenir focused on upending network economics SINGAPORE--Discussions of 5G are typically focused on the new applications that consumers and enterprises can use. The other side of that coin is the money operators have to spend to do that. Think of operators as manufacturers of capacity--5G...

RAN virtualization changes 5G network economics LONDON--“One of the challenges as we roll into 5G is thinking the old way. To change economics, to change the speed at which you can deploy, to change the way in which you can be agile to deliver new...

Open RAN development will change carrier/vendor dynamics, set the stage for disruption LONDON--For mobile network operators looking to upgrade to 5G, the vendor community is dominated by a limited number of end-to-end suppliers. Aside from the obvious economics this paradigm prescribes, in a software-defined, 5G...

Offloading traffic at the edge holds the key to making the economics of 5G service delivery tenable. From keeping video traffic local to enabling ultra-low latency operations for autonomous vehicle operations, the ability to provision virtual network elements at the edge and then manage...

  Network functions virtualization (NFV) and software-defined network (SDN) are spearheading the shift toward virtualization, with multi-access edge computing (MEC) serving as a way to alleviate some of the cloud’s workload. As manufacturers look to MEC to enable various smart devices, NFV and SDN are...

As network attacks get more sophisticated, AI can help with threat detection As it continues to develop, 5G will become increasingly complex. The need to deploy virtualized, programmable infrastructure becomes more pressing as new bandwidth-consuming enterprise, industrial and consumer applications hit the market. And, in...

xRAN Forum OKs management and control, user and synchronization specifications for fronthaul Network virtualization is a long-term movement in the telecom industry; the long-term goal is to create fully programmable, automated networks built with commercial off the shelf hardware rather than more expensive proprietary solutions....

Industry leaders share their perspectives on network slicing Using software-defined networking to run multiple, virtual networks on a single, physical infrastructure--that's the dream of 5G. As new services are created, servers will hop into action to create a customized, on-demand data pipe that will connect...