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The two companies hope to drive standardized RIC testing with the new solution Viavi Solutions on Wednesday announced that it’s signed a partnership agreement with VMware to develop a testbed as a service for RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) testing. Viavi said it hopes the new service will...

Read Verizon's approach to Open RAN Part 1—vRAN to Open RAN The Verizon Cloud Platform bringing “significant benefits” around network automation and orchestration Network virtualization, including virtual radio access network (vRAN) deployments, has been a massive, long-term process for Verizon, and laid the foundation for...

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, innovative ways of operating disaggregated...

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 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.