Open RAN

Elisa has enlisted Wind River to help build its far edge cloud for low-latency, high-bandwidth 5G services.

The latest from Dell Technologies covers telco cloud infrastructure integration, Open RAN partnership, design validation, and CSP services As telecom networks become more IT-centric in design and operation, and carriers move towards open networking and cloud-native network functions, it’s getting …

The companies are currently testing Open RAN in the Türk Telekom Innovation Center in Turkey Türk Telekom is teaming up with Parallel Wireless and Juniper Networks on a multivendor Open RAN initiative that will see the carrier deploy Open RAN …

KDDI worked with partners Samsung and Fujitsu to turn on the Open RAN site in Japan KDDI is claiming to have turned on the world’s first commercial 5G Standalone (SA) Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) site in partnership with …

Qualcomm inline accelerator card tapped for Open RAN virtualized distributed units Along with the gaining traction of commoditized telecom hardware and disaggregated Open RAN architectures, HPE is leaning into the telecom market with the creation of a Communications Technology Group …

AMD said it’s cleared regulatory hurdles to acquire FPGA pioneer Xilinx, giving AMD an important foothold in 5G and Open RAN.

CommScope and Meta will develop a mMIMO reference design based on O-RAN Alliance interoperability specifications CommScope and Meta Connectivity are collaborating on flexible and open reference designs to accelerate the adoption of Open RAN. Working alongside a network of industry …

‘What Open RAN delivers is in the eye of the beholder,’ Cellwize CEO says Around the world, multi-national operators have demonstrated major commitments around Open RAN (O-RAN) systems, with many now focused on its integration into brownfield networks. However, for …

Vodafone has opened a new R&D center in Málaga Spain to spur the development of Open RAN chips and other telco technology.

As the evolution to 5G technology advances worldwide, network operators are increasingly interested in exploring open radio access network (Open RAN) technology. Open RAN is promoted as offering a host of business benefits for both incumbent and new mobile operators, …

BT and Nokia are trialing an Open RAN solution in Hull, UK which uses Nokia’s RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC).

A new study from Dell’Oro Group projects Open RAN revenue to comprise 15% of total RAN market share by 2026.

As more people worked remotely during the early stages of the pandemic, operators shifted investment to fixed infrastructure underpinning home broadband connections. Looking to 2022, we’ll see renewed focus on the growth of 4G and time spent on evaluating the most pragmatic ways to add capacity and capability into 5G deployment plans. We see three major …

Korean carrier KT and Japanese tech company Fujitsu have completed a verification facility at the KT Research and Development Center in Seoul, South Korea, at which the two companies leveraged Fujitsu’s Open RAN-based 5G base station equipment to successfully test …

On this episode, Marisa Viveros, vice president of Strategy & Offerings for the Telecom, Media and Entertainment Industry at IBM defines the IBM telco cloud network ecosystem, delves into the specifics of the company’s recent cloud partnerships with Verizon and …

MPEG LA and Unified Patents have just launched their Alium patent pool program that seeks to license 4G LTE and 5G standard-essential patents (SEPs) for a minimum charge of $10 per Open RAN Radio Unit (RU). Previously, attention to licensing …

According to Vodafone and Mavenir, the news represents a significant milestone in the move away from physical infrastructure to a digital cloud-based environment Vodafone UK and virtualized RAN software specialist Mavenir are claiming the first successful data and Voice over …

Japan is expected set up a wide-area experimental network as early as 2022 to experiment with 5G O-RAN networks, Japanese newspaper Nikkei reported. According to the report, the initiative will be led by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications …

The PC802 SoC is a purpose-designed SoC for 5G NR/LTE small cell disaggregated and integrated RAN architectures Picocom has introduced the PC802 SoC (system on chip), a flexible, low power device that the company claims “empowers the innovation of a …

The RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) is an essential part of the Open RAN architecture, operate in near real time and non real time.

xApps and rApps are network automation tools to maximize radio network efficiency, and they’re part of an Open RAN architecture.

An xApp is software running on a near-real time Radio Access Network (RAN) Intelligent Controller (RIC) which enhances spectrum efficiency.

An rApp is a software application that helps optimize network traffic. It’s part of the Open RAN architecture.

Equinix will provide digital infrastructure services to support Dish’s cloud-native, Open RAN-based 5G network. As a result, Dish will have access to the infrastructure company’s International Business Exchange (IBX) data centers across the U.S. “Dish is taking the lead in …

Ericsson’s dips into Open RAN disaggregation efforts with Intelligent Automation Platform, promising optimized 4G and 5G network traffic.