On November 15, Red Hat hosted its fourth annual Open5G virtual event, with session tracks dedicated to open source advancements in 5G core, RAN, edge, cloud, AI, sustainability and more - discussed from the perspectives of over 25 leading service providers and key partners,...
SKT says it has improved the power consumption and processing capacity of virtual base stations
Korea’s SK Telecom (SKT) is claiming advancements in the power consumption and processing capacity for Open RAN virtual base stations, resulting from its work with several industry partners including Samsung,...
Nokia will deploy its fully O-RAN-compliant 5G AirScale baseband solution in Docomo’s commercial network in Japan
Finnish vendor Nokia announced that Japanese mobile operator NTT Docomo is deploying the former’s Open RAN (O-RAN) compliant 5G AirScale baseband solution, including centralized unit (CU) and distributed unit...
Nokia said the testing was carried out at its O-RAN Innovation Center in Dallas
Finnish vendor Nokia announced that it has successfully completed interoperability testing with a Mavenir radio using the O-RAN Alliance 7-2x interface at Nokia’s Open RAN Innovation Center in Dallas, Texas.
During the...
The RAN compute portfolio from Ericsson includes two high-capacity processors and two high-capacity, energy-efficient routers
Ericsson has announced a new portfolio of RAN compute silicon that it is confident will support demanding 5G-Advanced and enhanced artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms, enabling communications service providers (CSPs) to...
OTICs are vendor-independent, open, and qualified labs approved by the O-RAN Alliance
The O-RAN Alliance ecently accredited two new Open Testing and Integration Centers (OTIC) which adds to the existing O-RAN ecosystem.
The O-RAN Alliance said in a release that the new OTICs are MITRE in...
Seed funding of $200,000 has been awarded by O-RAN Alliance to the Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things at Northeastern University
The O-RAN Alliance announced the result of its call for proposals for seed funding of platforms that support research and development of next...
Fujitsu said the SoftBank deployment included the former's next-generation optical transmission platform "1 FINITY Ultra Optical System T900"
Japanese telecommunications operator SoftBank recently completed the nationwide deployment, in core areas, of an all-optical network, using a disaggregated architecture optical transmission system that supports open networks,...
VIAVI is collaborating with different industry players like NTT DoCoMo to enable simplification and efficiencies with Open RAN
NTT DoCoMo is using the VIAVI Solutions test suite for end-to-end testing for its 5G Open RAN Ecosystem (OREX), which was launched last year and is designed to...
Telecom Infra Project Executive Director Kristian Toivo comes on the show to reflect on key learnings form the recent TIP-hosted Fyuz event in Madrid, in particular the industrialization of Open RAN. In addition to looking how buy-in from incumbent vendors can accelerate Open RAN...
Testing will first be carried out technologies at a lab in Munich, and then in a commercial 5G network in Landsberg am Lech
Samsung Electronics and O2 Telefónica are jointly trialing advanced cloud-native virtualized Radio Access Network (vRAN) and Open RAN technologies in several lab and...
Major multinational European carriers have publicly and repeatedly expressed intent to deploy Open RAN at scale. This is driven by a number of factors chief among them the need to comply with national-level regulations concerning the replacement of equipment from Chinese vendors, as well...
NEC explained that the Project NAVIGATE aims to design, deploy, test and validate a blueprint for deploying open and sharable, public mobile 4G and 5G capacity in High Density Deployment (HDD) environments
NEC and Freshwave have been selected for Project NAVIGATE in the U.K. government's...
Wireless operators are devoting significant attention to deployments of indoor 5G coverage for large venues, transportation hubs, commercial developments and other high-density public or semi-public spaces. Since the majority of cellular traffic originates indoors, this is hardly surprising; macro networks have difficulty penetrating indoor...
The Open RAN conversation has evolved from a narrow focus on the nuts and bolts of making a multi-vendor radio system work, to operationalizing these systems and layering in app-based automation processes. To the automation point, this is where the Open RAN RIC, or...
This week, Geetha Ram, the head of telco compute at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, tells a story about her grandmother, details the relationship between Open RAN and AI and explains the difference between in-line and look-aside acceleration for Open RAN silicon.
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Open RAN enables intelligent, data-driven RAN optimization and control, according to an ABI Research analyst
Whether improving the power efficiency of mobile networks is truly the “highest priority” for operators, as Saqlain Ali, senior analyst at ABI Research, claimed at Open RAN Forum, it...
Parallel Wireless confirmed it would expand its U.K.-based team
U.S. Open RAN (O-RAN) company Parallel Wireless said it has won the U.K.’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT)’s Open Network Competition (ONE) with its project AURA (Agile Universal Radio Architecture).
Parallel Wireless said this...
Vodafone deployed the U.K.'s first 5G Open RAN site in Bath, Somerset in January 2022
Vodafone Group this week said it will introduce Open RAN in Italy through a pilot program. The carrier completed a series of 4G calls over a cluster of shared commercial...
Panelists at the Open RAN Forum discuss how Open RAN is helping solve some of the biggest non-terrestrial 5G hurdles
At this year’s Open RAN Forum, Cambridge Consultants’ Director of Wireless Technology Tim Rogers asserted that Open RAN architecture “accelerates the development of high-value, novel...
When it comes to building a successful ecosystem, the work has to be broad and deep. That, said Derek Johnston, head of 5G marketing and business development at Samsung Networks, is exactly the work that Samsung Networks has been doing in Open RAN and...
Experts see the Open RAN RIC supporting energy and spectral efficiency, service differentiation and more
In an Open RAN network, the RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) is, in some circles at least, viewed as the brains of the network--the thing that will propel Open RAN from...
Intel sees the combination of 5G and AI as “transforming dreams into reality”
Intel has been an ecosystem and market leader as operators turn to new virtualized and open 5G RAN architectures. With silicon support, partnerships and reference designs for vRAN and Open RAN, Intel...
4G revolutionized data throughput and latency, offering simplified architecture and scalable networks; 5G propels us even further. With latency below 5 ms and remarkably higher speeds, it unlocks real-time processing, enabling AI/ML in diverse scenarios: intelligent transportation for smart cities, energy-efficient homes, secure autonomous...
