Open RAN

Stronger-than-expected O-RAN progress in North America is behind the revision, says Dell’Oro The Dell’Oro Group published a recent report that the firm said shows that the Open RAN movement has “come a long way in just a few years” and is …

NIST says it will ‘enhance U.S. leadership in wireless technologies’ by joining O-RAN Alliance Amid U.S. government interest in boosting the Open RAN ecosystem and diversifying telecom supply chains, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has joined the …

Reducing network energy consumption has become central to communication service providers’ (CSPs) business operations and can help them drastically reduce operating costs. In fact, according to Nokia, energy consumption accounts for nearly half of all telco network operations cost, and …

KDDI has been developing O-RAN compliant 5G Open vRAN sites using Samsung’s virtualized solutions Japanese operator KDDI announced that, in cooperation with Samsung Electronics and Fujitsu, it initiated commercial deployment of O-RAN-compliant 5G Open Virtual Radio Access Network (Open vRAN) …

The demo integrated radios with Northrop Grumman’s tactical data links, AT&T’s private 5G network and Fujitsu’s O-RAN Network AT&T, Fujitsu and Northrop Grumman Corporation said they recently demonstrated 5G-enabled intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities in Northrop Grumman’s new 5G …

Under the terms of the MoU, ATIS and the O-RAN Alliance will collaborate on advancing the state-of-the-art of open radio access network The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) said it has executed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the …

1&1 said its O-RAN network will be soon available in Hamburg, Essen, Düsseldorf, Wiesbaden, Mainz, Munich and Freiburg German operator 1&1 announced plans to expand its cloud-based Open RAN in new cities across the country in the coming weeks, the …

Firms from Japan and the U.K. are expected to begin Open RAN technology sharing this year The U.K. and Japan announced plans to cooperate to promote Open RAN networks amid the increasing presence of Chinese vendors in the telecom sector, …

Mobile network operators, cable companies and hyperscalers are all investing in edge infrastructure, with market drivers including use cases from private cellular networking to edge robotics in industry—as well as disaggregated open networks, said Bejoy Pankajakshan, EVP and chief technology …

The UK government previously announced efforts to increase the share of open and interoperable equipment in domestic networks The governments of Australia, Canada and the United States have backed guidelines for telecoms companies, developed by the U.K., designed to build …

Build, deploy, run: The private 5G network lifecycle Private 5G networks, to some degree, are billed as a panacea for enterprise business problems—whatever your issue is, throw some high-powered connectivity at it. But that delta between hype and reality as …

NTT Docomo had selected Samsung Electronics as its 5G network solutions provider in March 2021 Korean vendor Samsung Electronics recently announced that it is supplying a variety of 5G radios to support Japanese telco NTT Docomo’s Open Radio Access Network …

“The Open RAN train continues to … accelerate at a faster pace than expected,” analyst firm says Open RAN revenues for the third quarter of 2022 more than doubled on a year-over-year basis, according to new preliminary estimates by Dell’Oro …

This report, a companion to the Open RAN Forum, aggregates, analyzes and contextualizes the wide-ranging discussions from expert speakers, including technology buyers, sellers, policy makers and innovators driving capital and operational efficiencies from disaggregated radio systems while also charting the …

Vodafone Idea’s CTO said that the telco will continue to carry out O-RAN trials in the country Indian carrier Vodafone Idea is open to carrying out additional pilots of Open-RAN (O-RAN), and would potentially consider the deployment of O-RAN networks …

Subscribers expect their mobile operator to deliver a seamless Quality of Experience when using voice, video services and OTT applications and in a highly competitive market, ensuring QoE is a key factor to avoid churn. With the emergence of 5G …

The RIC will be offered for free to Rakuten Symphony customers who buy Symworld applications As the focus of Open RAN discussion expands beyond capex and opex savings to also include an emphasis on disaggregated, cloud-based RAN as a vector …

5G is here, and with the expansion of connectivity comes the challenge of deploying and operating networks that prioritize both performance and reduced energy use.  In the past, each generation of mobile broadband has come with a steep increase in …

Far EasTone’s chairman, Chee Ching, said the telco has been looking to integrate and utilize 5G’s core technologies Taiwanese mobile operator Far EasTone Telecommunications has signed an agreement with Intel Taiwan to carry out joint research on 5G open virtualized …

Experts cite agility, cost savings and support as key focus areas At its essence, Open RAN disaggregates Radio Access Network (RAN) functionality from specialized, bespoke hardware to vendor-neutral hardware and software-defined technology based on open interfaces. This enables Communication Service …

Open RAN standards help create a level playing field, but there has to be room for innovation The world of telecoms is, among many other things, an exercise in developing and implementing technologies that have been standardized via a regimented, …

Vodafone said that its 5G Standalone network is currently available to nearly 20 million people across Germany Vodafone Germany said its 5G network is already providing coverage to 60 million people across the country. In a release, the telco said …

CEO Tareq Amin said a per-appliance software subscription fee “killed my business model”  Rakuten Mobile is in the process of removing Red Hat software from its network deployment in Japan, and working with Rocky Linux for processing software workloads in …

With Open RAN, there’s the risk of trading vendor lock-in for system integrator lock-in With greenfield success stories and increasing interest from brownfield players, it appears Open RAN is happening, but the question remaining is can it happen fast enough …

Tareq Amin discussed the outlook for Rakuten Symphony software-first market approach  Over the past three-plus years, I’ve interviewed Rakuten Symphony CEO Tareq Amin a number of times in one-on-one and group settings. Based on these interactions, I’m certain of one …