Open RAN

While Mavenir’s John Baker, senior Vice President of business development, is clear-eyed about challenges, both technical and business, the Open RAN ecosystem and other stakeholders need to work through, he sees material progress in adoption of open, multi-vendor radio systems …

In a bit of circularity, the Open RAN promise of full optionality between hardware and software components is also an overarching difficulty in deploying Open RAN at scale. How do you unify management of a disaggregated system? How do you …

Mavenir is ‘looking to optimize,’ said executive A month and a half after reports emerged about widespread layoffs at Parallel Wireless, Mavenir, another Open RAN vendor, appears to be doing the same. Just like in the case of Parallel, Mavenir’s …

The RIC is key to Open RAN network programmability and automation Looking past the TCO benefits associated with Open RAN, the real value operators are chasing (and vendors are working to prove out and monetize) has to do with new, …

Airspan says its private networks and FWA opportunities are growing, but chipset challenges remain Airspan reported second-quarter revenues up 12% year-over-year but saw a year-over-year increase in its quarterly loss as it continues to deal with chipset-related delays. The company …

Open RAN has been the subject of earnest development for a number of years and has seen large-scale commercial deployment by three major global operators building new networks with significant commitments from many large brownfield CSPs. Reducing TCO through vendor …

TCO reduction and vendor diversification are Open RAN deployment drivers For part of the recent Open RAN European Forum, RCR Wireless News surveyed 100 members of our audience to gain a better understanding of how they’re thinking about Open RAN …

One of the animating conceits of Open RAN as a technology set and what’s often characterized as a “movement,” is enabling operators to mix-and-match hardware and software from multiple vendors into a radio system optimized for a particular deployment scenario. …

Nokia: The Open RAN business case isn’t yet established for new or existing networks If you look at scaled Open RAN deployments today, it will become immediately obvious that the largest builds are from greenfield operators–1&1 in Germany, Dish in …

Vodafone: 30 percent of European network will be Open RAN by 2030 Open RAN, while certainly a set of technologies, is often described as a movement—a vision of collaboration that will enable a mix and match approach to radio systems …

NEC’s Patrick Lopez, global vice president of product management, lays out the four elements of Open RAN Editor’s note: This Q&A is adapted from an interview conducted at the Open RAN European Forum. It has been edited for length and …

Major Tier 1 operators are using Samsung’s cloud-native vRAN, including Open RAN, in greenfield and brownfield networks From distributed, to centralized and now to virtualized RAN, operators are re-architecting radio networks to set the stage for dynamic, software-centric operations. And …

Samsung Networks held its mid-year analyst day last week, giving an update on their progress on the vRAN/Open RAN front, Dish deployment, and the opportunities they see in the Private Networks space. I was among a few key analysts they …

The why and how of Open RAN, capex/opex savings and through honest collaboration, have been pretty well sorted. Now it’s time to leverage the capabilities of virtualized, open, multi-vendor solutions to deliver innovation. For operators, hosting radio workloads in cloud …

A group led by Vodafone demoed Open RAN power efficiency improvements and called for the industry to focus on making Open RAN greener.

Over 75% of CSPs say that Open RAN or Open Architectures are critical to future network operations. Open RAN is being tested and deployed by operators worldwide and is expected to take 15% of the RAN market by 2026 (3), …

Analysts remain optimistic that the job cuts don’t suggest larger problems brewing beneath the surface Open RAN vendor Parallel Wireless reported widespread layoffs earlier this week, citing economic conditions and the slower-than-expected pace of Open RAN adoption. While the company …

NTT DoCoMo will use Viavi’s TM500 Network Tester, TM500 O-DU Tester, the TeraVM O-CU Tester and the TeraVM Core Emulator NTT DoCoMo will use Viavi Solutions’ test suite for end-to-end testing for its 5G Open RAN Ecosystem (OREC), a project launched in 2021 that …

Open RAN as one of many vectors for closing the digital divide In my conversations at the recent Cisco Live event in Las Vegas, there were several recurring themes but for the purposes of this piece I’ll focus in on …

Qualcomm said Monday it acquired CHIME developer Cellwize to help bolster its Open RAN playbook. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

A month after announcing Google Cloud support for its EVO network management platform, P.I. Works says it also works with VMware’s RIC.

The goal of this initiative is to help identify obstacles to emerging or existing companies in accelerating the commercialization of O-RAN in the U.S The National Spectrum Consortium, with support from the Department of Defense (DoD), recently announced a call …

Operators are looking for cost reduction in both CAPEX and OPEX — and RAN is one of the biggest cost factors for operators. It is also one of the most challenging areas when introducing new features and services. Tackling the …

Rakuten Mobile’s Open RAN 5G network leaves something to be desired in terms of both spectral efficiency and performance, according to new testing from Signals Research Group. SRG conducted the tests over three days in late April, looking at both …

The report recommends a number of actions to mitigate potential risks of Open RAN in Europe European Union member states, with the support of the European Commission and ENISA, which is the EU Agency for Cybersecurity, have published a report …