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...
Ongoing RAN standardization work is paving the way for future 5G Advanced technology
During a session at RCR Live Telco Reinvention in April, Doug Pulley, chief solutions architect at Picocom, explained that a number of actors including the International Telecommunications Union, the Next Generation Mobile...
The National Spectrum Consortium and Linux Foundation have announced a formal collaboration focused on Open RAN software prototypes, demonstrations and development, including an open-source reference stack.
The NSC is a group of nearly 400 organizations that operates under a streamlined contract authority that is...
Currently, Mavenir 5G radios are manufactured by Jabil in the U.S. and India
Network software provider Mavenir expects to start manufacturing 5G Standalone (SA) and Open RAN (O-RAN) radios in Brazil in 2024, Brazilian news site Mobile Time reported.
According to the report, Mavenir aims to...
NI and Spirent Communications have teamed up on what they say is the "first and only" comprehensive test solution for the Open RAN Radio Unit (RU).
The new offering uses application layer testing with "any commercial device" for real-time O-RU validation, the partners said,...
The government of Brazil will allocate $36 million for research centers to develop 5G, 6G and O-RAN tech
Brazil’s Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation and local state-run research and industrial innovation company Embrapii announced the investment of BRL180 million ($36 million) in three institutions...
Dell'Oro highlighted that O-RAN revenue growth in Q1 was in the 10-20% range
Open RAN (O-RAN) and virtualized RAN (vRAN) revenue growth moderated in the first quarter of 2023 after strong growth last year, according to a recent report from Dell’Oro Group.
“Since both Open RAN...
Under the partnership, i2i Systems and Mavenir will promote the implementation and development of technology for O-RAN networks in Turkey
Mavenir has partnered with Turkish network software firm i2i Systems, with the aim of boosting collaboration for the development of Open RAN in Turkey.
i2i Systems...
Dell Technologies sees a bright long-term outlook for Open RAN
LAS VEGAS--With its Open Telecom Ecosystem Lab (OTEL) and constantly-expanding suite of telco-optimized products, Dell Technologies is a major player in Open RAN. While there seems to be broad support amongst operators for disaggregating radio...
