BROWSING: vRAN
Fujitsu launches 5G vRAN to help reduce CO2 emissions
The Japanese company aims to launch its new 5G vRAN solution by the end of fiscal 2022
Fujitsu announced that it has successfully developed new software virtualized radio access network (vRAN) technology with support for 5G Standalone (SA).
In a release, the Japanese company said it...
KDDI claims world’s first 5G Standalone Open RAN site supported by vRAN
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 Samsung and Fujitsu. Powered by...
AMD cleared for Xilinx acquisition
AMD said it's cleared regulatory hurdles to acquire FPGA pioneer Xilinx, giving AMD an important foothold in 5G and Open RAN.
Microsoft on the 5G edge: “The next wave of innovation”
Microsoft calls 5G mobile edge computing "the next wave of innovation" for a new class of low-latency apps and services.
Open RAN will have 15% RAN market share by 2026 – Report
A new study from Dell'Oro Group projects Open RAN revenue to comprise 15% of total RAN market share by 2026.
KT, Fujitsu, NTT Docomo partner to bring O-RAN to South Korea
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 call connections during interoperability...
What is an rApp? Network automation fundamentals
An rApp is a software application that helps optimize network traffic. It's part of the Open RAN architecture.
Simplifying and accelerating Open RAN
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) architectures and usher in a new era of 5G growth.
To accommodate the enormous amount...
Samsung, Ciena partner to address ‘blurring between RAN, transport and core’
Samsung and Ciena say their joint solution set will enable faster, pre-validated implementations of 5G networks
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vRAN vs. Open RAN: What’s the same and what’s different?
vRAN and Open RAN help operators improve flexibility, reduce costs and meet growing demand by disaggregating Radio Access Network functions.
Samsung will deploy 5G vRAN in KDDI’s mid-band network
Among other capabilities, virtualized networks will enable 5G network slicing
Samsung is deploying its cloud-native, fully virtualized Radio Access Network (vRAN) solutions for mid-band spectrum in KDDI’s 5G network, following the successful completion of a 5G Standalone (SA) call using Samsung’s vRAN and another vendor’s...
What is Kubernetes and what does it mean for 5G?
Kubernetes is cloud software container management that can help carriers with 5G Network Functions Virtualization
Midband spectrum Q&A: Ed Alfonso, Nokia’s head of Mobile Networks Americas
Midband spectrum is widely recognized to be the sweet spot for 5G deployments globally, due to its combination of large amounts of available bandwidth and better propagation characteristics than millimeter-wave. In the past year, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission has auctioned the 70 megahertz...
Open RAN revenues could surpass proprietary RAN revenues by 2025: Dell’Oro Group
Operators are focused on leveraging Open RAN to lower per-site TCO, according Dell'Oro Group VP
Telecoms industry analyst Stefan Pongratz, vice president of the Dell'Oro Group, this week told attendees to the Open RAN Forum that as operators connect radio site total cost of...
What is vRAN (virtualized RAN)?
A Virtualized Radio Access Network (vRAN) is an agile approach to RAN deployment and management that offers carriers the promise of improved operational efficiency and better flexibility to meet the myriad demands of 5G enterprise customers. vRAN and OpenRAN are often discussed in the...
Wind River taking on 5G vRAN integration with Intel FlexRAN
Wind River, Intel joint development meant to give operators deployment flexibility, lower TCO of 5G vRAN systems
Operators globally are gradually undertaking the transition to standalone 5G which involves a transition to cloud-native core and virtualization of the radio access network. The implementation of vRAN, however,...
Marvell set to play a key role in 5G virtual and Open RAN (Analyst Angle)
Marvell is a recognized leader in the data center chipsets market. However, when it comes to cellular space, despite being a valuable silicon provider to major network vendors, Marvell has largely remained away from the limelight. But that is set to change with the...
Rakuten acquiring Open RAN specialist Altiostar at $1 billion valuation
Altiostar virtualized and Open RAN tech is already part of the Rakuten Communications Platform
Building on their existing relationship which has seen Rakuten Mobile use Altiostar virtualized RAN software in its greenfield Japanese network, as well as inclusion in the company's Rakuten Communications Platform...
Intel partners with Airtel to accelerate 5G development in India
Intel and Indian telecommunications operator Bharti Airtel announced a collaboration to drive network development of 4G and 5G virtualized radio access network (vRAN) and open radio access network (RAN) technology.
Work by Intel and Airtel will evolve communications networks from fixed-function equipment to virtualized cloud-native...
Mavenir deploys Open vRAN at Deutsche Telekom’s O-RAN Town
Deutsche Telekom launched O-RAN Town in the city of Neubrandenburg this past June
Mavenir has deployed Open vRAN, integrated with massive MIMO (mMIMO) Active Antenna Units (AAU), as part of Deutsche Telekom’s, “O-RAN Town” in Germany to deliver a 5G Non-Standalone Architecture (NSA) service. The...
Nvidia announces Arm support for AI-on-5G platform and next-gen DPU
The AI-on-5G platform combines the GPU and the DPU on the same EGX Nvidia AI card
At this year’s Mobile World Congress, Nvidia announced that it is extending support for Arm-based CPUs in the Nvidia Aerial A100 AI-on-5G, a platform first revealed in April at...
Ericsson focuses on vRAN with hybrid physical/virtual Open Lab
Ericsson Open Lab carrier partners include KDDI, Ooredoo, Orange, SoftBank, and Turkcell
In support of the broad industry move toward cloud-based radio access networks running on commodity hardware, Ericsson and a number of operator and other partners announced the launch of the Ericsson Open Lab...
Episode Thirteen – The Connected Sports Fanatic
While the fundamentals the sports have changed very little, the requirements of the passionate fanbases have sprinted full speed ahead. Join us as we explore how leading sports stadiums are providing new experiences for spectators and how technology is at the foundation of the...
Small Cell Forum on 2021: Diversification from network densification – three ways
The most important watchword in 2021 will be diversification. This will be key to growth for the mobile industry in the 5G era, on multiple levels. In the past, cellular networks and services have been supplied, deployed and monetized by a relatively small number...