Open RAN

With brownfield operators poised to scale Open RAN, Intel highlights the TCO benefits of Ethernet transport—availability, familiarity, flexibility A number of converging technological trends are reshaping how operators design, deploy …

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 …

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% …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …