Open RAN

Rakuten Symphony and Veon will seek to accelerate the reconstruction of the country’s infrastructure, through collaboration on O-RAN Rakuten Symphony has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with telecom operator Veon, with the aim of helping recovery of critical infrastructure …

Getting Open RAN acceleration right directly impacts network monetization opportunities As the Open RAN market continues to mature and evolve, there’s a growing debate around whether in-line or look-aside acceleration is better-suited for lower layer processing. The main difference between …

Rakuten Mobile will share results from its RIC experimentation with the O-RAN Alliance and the Open Test and Integration Centre (OTIC) in Japan Rakuten Mobile has announced plans to conduct R&D on RAN intelligent controllers (RICs) at Japan’s Yokosuka Telecom …

The Open RAN mobile sites will be used to provide coverage to the surrounding rural communities Vodafone has partnered with mobile coverage services specialist Net CS to provide 4G coverage to rural communities around 11 Church of England parish churches …

As the telecoms industry undergoes rapid change and digitalization, 2023 marks the year of much-needed reinvention. Both carriers and other stakeholders are facing new challenges and opportunities as they adapt, monetize and expand to meet the demands of the transforming …

The Department of Home Affairs has launched a tender process to select an operator for the 5G lab The government of Australia is moving ahead with its plans to set up a lab with the main aim of checking the …

Ragha Gopavarapu, a senior manager for Samsung’s carrier accounts, shares Samsung’s perspective on the vRAN and Open RAN revolutions in telecom networks, and provides an update on the company’s new vRAN 3.0 offering.

Part of the vision of Open RAN has been creating specifications and ecosystem alignment resulting in what is effectively a plug-and-play radio systems. However, the reality today, and the near-term outlook, show this isn’t the case; system integration is and …

Rakuten Mobile said that this O-RAN research initiative is expected to last until June 2026 Japanese operator Rakuten Mobile announced the launch of a new research and development project with the aim of developing advanced Open RAN integration infrastructure. The …

The university noted that the new facility has been approved by the O-RAN Alliance The Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things (WIoT) at Northeastern University opened an Open Testing and Integration Center (OTIC) in Burlington, Massachusetts, to promote research, …

Open Radio Access Networks pose both an opportunity—for new flexibility and agility within the RAN and the ability for network operators to re-set vendor relationships—and a challenge of interoperability among freshly disaggregated network elements. But making sure that new features …

Open RAN and vRAN — along with multi-access computing (MEC) — are enabling the creation of highly-distributed 5G networks to support a plethora of new applications that require ultra-low latency, very high bandwidth, ultra-reliability and greater device density. Unfortunately, history …

The partners said they had also participated in the O-RAN Alliance’s global plugfest for spring 2023 Asian companies KT, NTT Docomo and Fujitsu, together with SOLiD, Keysight Technologies and Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), said they have successfully conducted …

The O-RAN Alliance also said that O-RAN firms plan to showcase three on-site and 15 virtual demos during Mobile World Congress Shanghai 2023 The O-RAN Alliance announced the completion of the O-RAN Global PlugFest Spring 2023, in which a number …

Open RAN opens the door for network automation and service differentiation Network and software providers would find it more useful to have less choice at every stage of future RAN specifications as the wide menu of options usually represents a …

Through products and partnerships, Dell Technologies is pushing open network architectures as a key enabler of 5G monetization Dell Technologies sees significant growth potential as telecom networks transition to cloud environments, hardware and software is disaggregated, and compute is distributed …

“The overwhelming interest in this first round of funding shows the private sector is stepping up,” says NTIA’s Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications & Information The National Telecommunications and Information Administration said that it has received 127 applications asking …

‘The ultimate test, is does the user get a good experience?’ 5G, Open RAN, millimeter-wave and midband spectrum—networks are evolving faster than ever. Operators must ensure that these rapidly-changing networks are working as expected and providing human users and connected …

The National Spectrum Consortium and Linux Foundation have announced a formal collaboration focused on Open RAN software prototypes, demonstrations and development, including an open-source reference stack. The NSC is a group of nearly 400 organizations that operates under a streamlined …

Currently, Mavenir 5G radios are manufactured by Jabil in the U.S. and India Network software provider Mavenir expects to start manufacturing 5G Standalone (SA) and Open RAN (O-RAN) radios in Brazil in 2024, Brazilian news site Mobile Time reported. According …

NI and Spirent Communications have teamed up on what they say is the “first and only” comprehensive test solution for the Open RAN Radio Unit (RU). The new offering uses application layer testing with “any commercial device” for real-time O-RU …

Cloud, Open RAN and increased complexity means visibility is more important than ever Telecom networks are facing a slew of simultaneous changes that are increasing complexity, from the deployment of 5G and the addition of new, higher frequency spectrum bands …

The government of Brazil will allocate $36 million for research centers to develop 5G, 6G and O-RAN tech Brazil’s Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation and local state-run research and industrial innovation company Embrapii announced the investment of BRL180 million …

Under the partnership, i2i Systems and Mavenir will promote the implementation and development of technology for O-RAN networks in Turkey Mavenir has partnered with Turkish network software firm i2i Systems, with the aim of boosting collaboration for the development of …

Dish’s Dave Mayo spoke at CTIA’s 5G Summit this week WASHINGTON, D.C.—Dish Wireless has until June 30th to build out its 5G network to cover 70% of the U.S. population, with the deadline coming a year after the company had …