Open RAN

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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

As companies increasingly start to build and run their own 5G networks, there is much talk about open standards in cellular radio access networks (RAN). The rise of the Open RAN …

For the last four decades, the wireless industry has been on its quest for enhancements in wireless networks and services. The RAN architecture has been opened in standardization for some …

A RAN Intelligent Controller is cloud software responsible for controlling and optimizing baseband communication functions on the RAN.

VMware’s newest addition to the Telco Cloud Platform is VMware RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC), coming in 2022.

Dell Technologies recently announced it is delivering a fully validated solution for Mavenir Open vRAN and VMware Telco Cloud Platform to accelerate the deployment of new open radio access network (RAN) …

Google Distributed Cloud products offer edge computing, 5G RAN, and cloud functionality that maintains strict data sovereignty requirements.

The road to open and virtualized networks is paved with challenges. Join Keysight for the Open RAN Transformation event and hear from industry and technical experts on the state of …

Open RAN isn’t the only place Vodafone sees the importance of disaggregation. It’s also fixed its sights on Broadband Network Gateways (BNGs)

The two companies will give vendors an opportunity to test and optimize performance as they develop Open RAN solutions IBM Global Business Services and Airspan Networks have announced plans to …

While 6G is still many years off, industry experts see more resilient, critical, unified, distributed, and automated networks What exactly will 6G be? Given that current research is taking place …

Opex is operator’s primary problem, Huawei exec said; RAN is around 12% of per-site capex Of the big three global infrastructure providers, Huawei has been the least active in formal …

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Nokia joined the O-RAN Alliance in 2018, the first major RAN vendor to do so Finnish RAN vendor Nokia has been considered a driving force behind the telecom industry’s Open …