While Open RAN vendors are focused on hardware/software disaggregation and interoperability, operators also need RAN reaggregation
As commercial Open RAN deployments, particularly in brownfield network environments, begin to ramp, the longstanding focus on ensuring interoperability between disaggregated radio hardware and software could stand to move...
NEC said that the tests were conducted from August 2021 to June 2023
Japanese companies NEC and Fujitsu are currently conducting research and development of a technology for testing the interoperability of "post-5G" base stations compliant with O-RAN specifications.
In a release, the partners said that...
'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...
In a bit of circularity, the Open RAN promise of full optionality between hardware and software components is also an overarching difficulty in deploying Open RAN at scale. How do you unify management of a disaggregated system? How do you procedurally run through the...
TCO reduction and vendor diversification are Open RAN deployment drivers
For part of the recent Open RAN European Forum, RCR Wireless News surveyed 100 members of our audience to gain a better understanding of how they’re thinking about Open RAN deployment. Top motivations include...
One of the animating conceits of Open RAN as a technology set and what’s often characterized as a “movement,” is enabling operators to mix-and-match hardware and software from multiple vendors into a radio system optimized for a particular deployment scenario. Offsetting that is one...
Nokia: The Open RAN business case isn’t yet established for new or existing networks
If you look at scaled Open RAN deployments today, it will become immediately obvious that the largest builds are from greenfield operators--1&1 in Germany, Dish in the United States and Rakuten...
Note, this article is taken from a new report, entitled NB-IoT – what has gone wrong, and when will it go right? The full report is available here. A webinar on the same topic is available here, with panellists from BICS, Sequans, and Nordic...
Japanese companies NEC and Fujitsu have begun developing technologies for interoperability testing between 5G base station equipment conforming to O-RAN specifications at NEC's U.K. laboratories and Fujitsu's U.S. laboratories.
Both companies are expected to build a verification environment using these technologies in their respective laboratories,...
Xilinx and Fujitsu are coming together to support a more rapid rollout of 5G in the United States. The partnership, which will involve Xilinx incorporating its UltraScale+ technology into Fujitsu’s O-RAN 5G radio units (O-RUs), will allow for the interoperability between baseband and radio...
The Open & Agile Smart Cities (OASC) network said that these mechanisms have been implemented in Antwerp, Manchester, Helsinki, Milan, and Porto, among others
The Open & Agile Smart Cities (OASC) network, which is a coalition of 124 cities from 24 countries, have formally adopted...
SK had previously selected the three vendors as its preferred bidders for 5G gear
South Korea’s largest mobile operator, SK Telecom, announced that it has successfully tested interoperability between a 5G Non Standalone (NSA) core developed by compatriot company Samsung Electronics and 5G base stations...
Three quarters of enterprise-based ‘internet of things’ (IoT) projects are failing, reckons US networking specialist Cisco. This is an alarming statistic, especially when considered in the context of the head-spinning growth of new IoT deployments.
Analyst house IDC calculates the total base of installed IoT...
The need for interoperability
Network interoperability has become increasingly important in the telecommunications industry with the emergence network functions virtualization (NFV) and software-defined network (SDN). These sorts of technologies have freed customers from vendor lock-in by replacing proprietary hardware with open source software, which allow...
Alibaba Cloud and Esri join forces
Spatial analytics company Esri and Alibaba Cloud have entered a partnership, which will allow both organizations to deliver technologies to customers who want to implement Esri technology on Alibaba Cloud.
Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) was founded in 1969 and...
A growing community
The telecommunications industry and beyond is increasingly embracing open source software. Just this year, for example, the Linux Foundation established the LF Networking Fund (LFN) in an effort to host its many open source projects focused on developing an open telecom ecosystem...
The de facto standard for container orchestration
Kubernetes was crowned the de facto standard of container orchestration in 2017, with companies like Oracle, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Docker embracing the open source platform. According to the Portworx Annual Container Adoption survey that included insight...
Interoperability, architecture and framework for Wi-Fi roaming
The global mobile workforce is set to increase from 1.3 billion in 2014, accounting for 37.4% of the global workforce, to 1.75 billion in 2020, according to various sources. Globalization will continue to drive the growth of mobile...
Altair Semiconductor, a provider of LTE chipsets, announced earlier this month that its ALT1160 LTE Cat-1 chipset successfully completed interoperability testing with the Open Mobile Alliance's Lightweight machine-to-machine protocol. The test took place at the recent OMA TestFest, where vendors had the opportunity to test the stability...
IBM goes all in with blockchain.
IBM this week announced a blockchain ecosystem designed to help accelerate the creation of networks using the technology.
The ecosystem program is designed for large-businesses, startups, systems integrators, independent software vendors and enterprise developers. To support...
We spoke with Jim Hunter, Greenwave Systems’ chief scientist and technology evangelist, on the new Trump-led administration, governmental IoT security regulations and interoperability.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viUkId8jSj8
The United States government recently released guidelines on securing the IoT, following the lead of countries in Europe and Asia.
"What is starting...
OPC, standards for the IIoT
Making data actionable by moving it away from machines and onto software is a fundamental challenge for the industrial "internet of things." Looking to tackle that challenge is the object linking and embedding for process control standard, which is a...
OPC, standards for the IIoT
Making data actionable by moving it away from machines and onto software is a fundamental challenge for the industrial "internet of things." Looking to tackle that challenge is the object linking and embedding for process control standard, which is a...
DALLAS–Craig Bachmann, senior director of open digital/IoE at TM Forum, opened up the internet of everything track of TM Forum Innovation InFocus this week with a talk titled “Forum InFocus: Enabling an open digital ecosystem.” TM Forum is finding that enterprises are questioning what their...
