As Communications Service Providers (CSPs) transition from closed proprietary RAN systems to open, disaggregated solutions as part of their migration to 5G, Ethernet adapters with hardware-enhanced timing synchronization are proving essential in allowing them to build virtualized RAN (vRAN) solutions to meet their customers’...
According to a new Dell'Oro report, RAN is declining at its fastest pace in seven years
A new report from Dell’Oro Group shows that the Radio Access Network (RAN) market has moved past its rapid expansion phase from 2017 to 2021, and is now declining...
Latest Intel processor integrates Layer 1 processing into SoC; available on Dell edge servers
Building on a strong pre-existing relationship, Dell Technologies and Intel continue to partner in an effort to accelerate commercial deployment of virtualized and open radio access networks. The latest from the...
Both countries will also seek to promote Open RAN in other countries across Latin America
Brazil’s telecommunications regulator Anatel and the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of Japan (MIC) signed a cooperation agreement with the main aim of expanding Open RAN deployments and related...
NEC said this O-RAN certification has been issued by Japan OTIC
Japanese tech company NEC said it has obtained O-RAN certification from Japan's Open Testing & Integration Center (OTIC) for its 5G base station radio unit (RU).
The company said that this 5G base station...
Viavi outlines private Open RAN benefits and security complexities
Beyond macro public networks, Open RAN could also support the variety of deployment configurations necessary for private enterprise networks. But just as Tier 1 operators have to guard against security incidents to stave off financial and...
Rakuten Symphony and Veon will seek to accelerate the reconstruction of the country’s infrastructure, through collaboration on O-RAN
Rakuten Symphony has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with telecom operator Veon, with the aim of helping recovery of critical infrastructure in Ukraine, which has been...
Getting Open RAN acceleration right directly impacts network monetization opportunities
As the Open RAN market continues to mature and evolve, there's a growing debate around whether in-line or look-aside acceleration is better-suited for lower layer processing.
The main difference between these two approaches is that in...
As networks rapidly evolve with the advancements in 5G, Open RAN, millimeter-wave, and midband spectrum technologies, ensuring seamless performance and user experience has become crucial for operators. How does testing keep pace? What are the key challenges that operators currently face in testing and...
Rakuten Mobile will share results from its RIC experimentation with the O-RAN Alliance and the Open Test and Integration Centre (OTIC) in Japan
Rakuten Mobile has announced plans to conduct R&D on RAN intelligent controllers (RICs) at Japan’s Yokosuka Telecom Research Park to advance the...
The Open RAN mobile sites will be used to provide coverage to the surrounding rural communities
Vodafone has partnered with mobile coverage services specialist Net CS to provide 4G coverage to rural communities around 11 Church of England parish churches across the U.K. Using Open...
As the telecoms industry undergoes rapid change and digitalization, 2023 marks the year of much-needed reinvention. Both carriers and other stakeholders are facing new challenges and opportunities as they adapt, monetize and expand to meet the demands of the transforming landscape.
In the most recent...
Ericsson said that the joint PoC deployment was carried out at O2 Telefónica's Wayra innovation hub in Munich
Ericsson and German telco O2 Telefónica completed a proof of concept (PoC) with the aim of paving the way for the development of 5G cloud RAN technology...
Dell'Oro said the O-RAN segment already comprises a mid-single digit share of the broader RAN market
Open RAN (O-RAN) revenues are forecasted to account for more than 15% of the global RAN market by 2027, as the market is experiencing a slower growth than initially...
Ragha Gopavarapu, a senior manager for Samsung’s carrier accounts, shares Samsung's perspective on the vRAN and Open RAN revolutions in telecom networks, and provides an update on the company's new vRAN 3.0 offering.
Part of the vision of Open RAN has been creating specifications and ecosystem alignment resulting in what is effectively a plug-and-play radio systems. However, the reality today, and the near-term outlook, show this isn't the case; system integration is and will be a key...
Rakuten Mobile said that this O-RAN research initiative is expected to last until June 2026
Japanese operator Rakuten Mobile announced the launch of a new research and development project with the aim of developing advanced Open RAN integration infrastructure.
The operator said that this launch is...
The university noted that the new facility has been approved by the O-RAN Alliance
The Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things (WIoT) at Northeastern University opened an Open Testing and Integration Center (OTIC) in Burlington, Massachusetts, to promote research, development and testing of next-generation...
Exploiting advances in technology to drive more sustainable and higher performing telecoms networks is quickly emerging as a key consideration for the modern CTO. For me, artificial intelligence (AI), combined with the potential of O-RAN, present some of the most compelling opportunities.
Mobile telecoms businesses...
Open Radio Access Networks pose both an opportunity—for new flexibility and agility within the RAN and the ability for network operators to re-set vendor relationships—and a challenge of interoperability among freshly disaggregated network elements.
But making sure that new features and functions actually work...
Open RAN and vRAN — along with multi-access computing (MEC) — are enabling the creation of highly-distributed 5G networks to support a plethora of new applications that require ultra-low latency, very high bandwidth, ultra-reliability and greater device density.
Unfortunately, history shows us that even the...
'What network disaggregation will bring to telecom comes down to what operators want out of their networks,' says Simon Burley, principal at Ofcom
Panelists at RCR Live Telco Reinvention in London offered their thoughts on how the industry is working to ensure interoperability in an...
The partners said they had also participated in the O-RAN Alliance's global plugfest for spring 2023
Asian companies KT, NTT Docomo and Fujitsu, together with SOLiD, Keysight Technologies and Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), said they have successfully conducted an interoperability test using virtualized...
The O-RAN Alliance also said that O-RAN firms plan to showcase three on-site and 15 virtual demos during Mobile World Congress Shanghai 2023
The O-RAN Alliance announced the completion of the O-RAN Global PlugFest Spring 2023, in which a number of operators carried out critical...
Open RAN opens the door for network automation and service differentiation
Network and software providers would find it more useful to have less choice at every stage of future RAN specifications as the wide menu of options usually represents a challenge for companies, Picocom Chief...
