Sustainability is fast becoming a business imperative for the telecoms industry, driven by factors such as the UN's Race to Zero Campaign, rising energy costs, complex 5G deployments and heightened customer and shareholder expectations.RCR Wireless News' latest report, a companion piece to Telco Sustainability Forum, deep...
Deploying massive MIMO for mid-band 5G presents the opportunity to massively reduce per site power consumption and system-level energy efficiency
While there isn’t anything magical that happens when a new year starts, it does represent the opportunity to renew focus, refresh ambition and revisit priorities....
Parallel Wireless said its 5G SA solution is purposefully architected to run on any general-purpose computing platform
U.S.-based Open RAN (O-RAN) firm Parallel Wireless announced the general availability of what it claims to be the world’s first hardware-agnostic 5G Standalone (SA) software stack.
The company noted...
The deal is part of the MoU signed by Nokia and Deutsche Telekom at MWC 2023 in Barcelona
Nokia and Deutsche Telekom (DT) announced that they have begun to deploy a multi-vendor Open RAN (O-RAN) network with Fujitsu in Germany.
The partners explained that the technology...
Fujitsu EVP and Head of Global Networks Business Femi Adeyemi joins the show to look at the state of Open RAN, including positive market traction and lingering impediments, particularly related to providing vendor optionality without creating analysis paralysis.
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1&1 said its partners in the O-RAN project are Rakuten Mobile and Mavenir
German operator 1&1 confirmed that Open RAN (O-RAN) is fully functional and available throughout the country on its 5G network.
The German carrier said that the O-RAN deployment is being supported by vendors...
AT&T announced this week that it wants to have 70% of its traffic on open network platforms within the next few years and will spend up to $14 billion with Ericsson to make that happen. In remarks at the UBS Global Media and Communications...
Reality or just a dream: how will AI, automation, and cloud technologies help communication service providers (CSPs) lower network energy costs 25% by 2025?
How can cloud-native operations and CI/CD simplify and accelerate sustainability efforts for CSPs, especially in optimizing energy usage in the RAN?
What...
With brownfield operators poised to scale Open RAN, Intel highlights the TCO benefits of Ethernet transport—availability, familiarity, flexibility
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A number of converging technological trends are reshaping how operators design, deploy and manage mobile networks. The push to cloud-native 5G Standalone will be key to unlocking...
Next March, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration's Institute for Telecommunications Science and the Department of Defense's FutureG Office will hold an invite-only event at which telecom companies and academic researchers will have a chance to demonstrate (not simulate) applications for the RAN Intelligent...
Nokia noticeably absent from AT&T's five-year effort to deploy commercial-scale open radio access networks
AT&T is planning to spend roughly $14 billion over the next five years to shift 70% of its network traffic onto open and interoperable platforms, with the foundation provided by Ericsson.
The...
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...
