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Key takeaways from SRG’s Open RU/DU testing

Testing the various components of Open Radio Access Networks—the open control unit, distributed unit and radio unit, or O-CU, O-DU and O-RU—has been the focus of multiple plugfests and other extensive testing as operators, vendors and test companies work out the intricacies of interoperability,...

Elisa to continue expanding 5G, explores O-RAN tech

Elisa currently covers 95% of Finland’s population with 5G Finnish telecom operator Elisa now covers 95% of Finland’s population with 5G and has plans to expand the coverage even further in the coming years, the telco's Head of Mobile Access Tiina Höckert told RCR Wireless...

Ericsson building rApp directory in Open RAN push

Ericsson rApp strategy is focused on network automation, deployment, evolution, healing and optimization As operators continue to push toward large-scale Open RAN deployments, a North Star is this idea of using open radio access networks as decentralized platforms for innovation. What this means, we...

NTT Docomo highlights its O-RAN progress

In March 2020, Docomo commercialized what it claimed to be the world's first Open RAN-based 5G network Japanese carrier NTT Docomo said that it is currently using Open RAN (O-RAN) with the main aim of enhancing network flexibility and cost efficiency, the telco told RCR...

What will it take to industrialize Open RAN?

Ericsson takes stock of Open RAN standardization, integration and scaled deployment Before examining what it will take to industrialize Open RAN, let’s look at what it means for a technology to be industrialized. At a high-level, it needs to be standardized, cost-efficient, able to integrate...

AT&T sees Open RAN enabling ‘continuous innovation’

AT&T sees AI, cloud and Open RAN decoupling network enhancements from a “cycle of virtuous Gs” AT&T is in the early days of a massive radio access network (RAN) modernization program. The operator is investing $14 billion over a five-year deal with primary vendor Ericsson...

Vodafone on Open RAN—’I don’t think we’ll ever go back’

Beyond cost reduction, Vodafone sees Open RAN as a vector for innovation; cites work with Cohere Technologies After six years of collaborative work, Vodafone has moved from a proto-Open RAN demo running on a laptop in the company’s stand at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona...

Telus on Open RAN integration—if we can do it, you probably can too

A Huawei rip-and-replace mandate prompted Telus to pivot to Open RAN Canadian operator Telus began working on virtualized Open RAN with Samsung in June 2020, and in February 2024 expanded that collaboration to include its 4G and 5G networks. Prompted by a governmental mandate to...

Open RAN intelligent control—from vision to reality (Reader Forum)

Among the most celebrated principles in the Open RAN paradigm, softwarization and disaggregation have taken center stage in discussions on the commercialization and deployment of O-RAN systems. A less frequently discussed principle that these two elements enable is programmability—the ability to dynamically and algorithmically...

Intel’s Caroline Chan elected TIP president

Chan has been on the board at TIP since 2017, making her its longest-serving member The Telecom Infra Project (TIP) has elected Caroline Chan, VP in the Network and Edge Group at Intel Corporation and current TIP board member, as its president. Chan has been...

StarHub demos O-RAN in Singapore with NTT Docomo

StarHub said that other firms including Keysight Technologies and Fujitsu also participated in the trial Singaporean operator StarHub has recently conducted what it claims to be the country's inaugural Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) call on its 5G network. The achievement comes as part...

Hughes, Boost Mobile carry out new test for US Navy

Hughes said the demo tested remote network orchestration, wide area network (WAN) resiliency as well as secure Radio Access Network (RAN) sharing Hughes Network Systems and Boost Mobile, both owned by EchoStar, said they successfully demonstrated multi-transport network management for the U.S. Navy. The demonstration, which...

Open SMO: The key to unlocking the brownfield (Reader Forum)

In March of 2021, Tareq Amin, then CTO of Rakuten Mobile and now CEO of Aramco Digital, and I contemplated the question of how Rakuten Mobile could ramp itself onto a "brownfield" operator's modernization roadmap and drive Open RAN adoption. Of course, this would...

5G energy efficiency metrics, models and system tests (Reader Forum)

Sarat Puthenpura, Chief Architect – Open RAN; Aether (previously ONF) will be speaking at this year's Open RAN Global Forum. Read more and register here. Energy costs for telecom operators can be as high as 10% of their total operating expenditure. This is especially true...

Singtel targets advanced network architectures including L4S

In an interview with RCR Wireless News, Tay Yeow Lian, managing director of networks at Singtel Singapore, noted that the telco currently offers nationwide 5G SA services with a network of more than 1,500 5G mobile base stations Singaporean telco Singtel plans to explore...

Editorial Report: Open RAN in 2024

Open RAN has long been described as a journey, with the first steps focused purely on disaggregating hardware and software, then reaggregating it into a function radio system. Now the focus is shifting to more robust implementations that go beyond disaggregation and get into open,...

North America to lead O-RAN market by 2028: Dell’Oro

Europe is forecast to account for 15-20 percent of the global O-RAN revenues by 2028, according to the report North America is expected to lead the Open RAN (O-RAN) market during the 2023-2028 period, according to a recent report by Dell’Oro Group. Dell’Oro highlighted that North...

Digital Catapult unveils program to boost O-RAN energy efficiency

SONIC Labs is delivered by Digital Catapult and supported by U.K. telecommunications regulator Ofcom Digital Catapult has launched its first SONIC Labs Technology Access Program, in which it is collaborating with a number of organizations to address energy efficiency challenges in Open RAN (O-RAN) operations. Digital...

O-RAN Alliance specifications to be added to ATIS standards

ATIS explained that the MoU establishes a joint process to identify O-RAN specifications for adoption by ATIS The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) and the O-RAN Alliance have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that enables the transposition of O-RAN Alliance specifications to ATIS...

What do brownfield operators want from Open RAN?

Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefonica, TIM and Vodafone detail Open RAN interests—SMO, RIC, RAN hardware acceleration are focus areas As Open RAN has becomes mainstream, the industry focus has shifted from supplying greenfield network builds to integrating new, open radio systems into brownfield networks. For Open...

Dell, Ericsson collaboration accelerates adoption of advanced network architectures 

In May, Dell and Ericsson announced a partnership for tailored network cloud infrastructure support for CSPs  During the DTW Ignite conference in Copenhagen, Dell Technologies and Ericsson highlighted the importance of a strategic partnership the pair announced in May, which will support communications service providers...

EchoStar opens Wyoming O-RAN test lab

EchoStar said that the new O-RAN facility is housed at the company's data center in Cheyenne EchoStar Corporation announced the launch of the Open RAN Center for Integration and Deployment (ORCID), a state-of-the-art Open RAN (O-RAN) testing and evaluation lab. The company said that the new...

Indosat to put main focus on 4G expansion: CEO

In an interview with RCR Wireless News, Indosat's President and CEO, Vikram Sinha said that the telco has alread launched 5G services in eight cities across Indonesia, including Jakarta, Makassar, and Bali Indonesian telco Indosat has the main priority of strengthening its 4G network to...

TIP authorizes Viavi’s lab-as-a-service for O-RAN testing

Viavi's Automated Lab-as-a-service for Open RAN (VALOR) solution gets official TIP authorization Viavi Solutions' Lab-as-a-service for Open RAN, otherwise known as VALOR, is getting expanded test capabilities through a new collaboration with the Telecom Infra Project (TIP). VALOR has been established as the first authorized test...