O-RAN Alliance

A group led by Vodafone demoed Open RAN power efficiency improvements and called for the industry to focus on making Open RAN greener.

The O-RAN Alliance also announced the launch of its Certification and Badging program O-RAN Alliance announced it has formed its next Generations Research Group (nGRG), with the aim of carrying …

The new O-RAN Release 002 focuses on enabling Open Intelligence The O-RAN Alliance released its second wave of specifications for open radio access network (RAN) architecture. In a release, the …

French operator Orange has officially inaugurated its Open RAN Integration Center, the telco said in a release. The new testing and integration facility will enable companies from the O-RAN ecosystem …

The O-RAN Alliance, a global community of more than 300 companies operating in the Radio Access Network (RAN) industry, has released another set of technical specifications for Open RAN. In …

vRAN and Open RAN help operators improve flexibility, reduce costs and meet growing demand by disaggregating Radio Access Network functions.

Nokia said it resumed its technical contribution to the O-RAN Alliance, after the group offered assurances its work complied with U.S. legislation. In a blog, Nokia’s Mobile Networks president Tommi …

Opex is operator’s primary problem, Huawei exec said; RAN is around 12% of per-site capex Of the big three global infrastructure providers, Huawei has been the least active in formal …

Nokia joined the O-RAN Alliance in 2018, the first major RAN vendor to do so Finnish RAN vendor Nokia has been considered a driving force behind the telecom industry’s Open …

Telecom Italia (TIM) launched an Open Test and Integration Center (OTIC), a lab dedicated to testing Open RAN solutions, the telco said in a release. The new “TIM European OTIC …

Shortly after LTE reached maturity, service providers started facing new challenges to meet customer demand for high capacity and “always-on” connectivity with quick set-up and transition time, spurred by diverse …

Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo agreed to cooperate with 12 companies to move toward a “5G Open RAN Ecosystem,” with the objective to globally accelerate open radio access networks (O-RAN). The …

The most important watchword in 2021 will be diversification. This will be key to growth for the mobile industry in the 5G era, on multiple levels. In the past, cellular …

The demo featured a commercial end-to-end Open Fronthaul interface based on O-RAN specifications In October, the O-RAN Alliance conducted its second Global O-RAN Alliance plugfest, an event that boasts the …

Rakuten Mobile CTO takes spot on O-RAN Alliance board Japanese operator Rakuten Mobile, a subsidiary of e-commerce giant Rakuten, announced it has joined the O-RAN Alliance, a worldwide community promoting …

The second global Open RAN plugfest event included 55 companies from around the world, spread across four regions and focusing on testing functionality and multi-vendor interoperabiltiy of O-RAN-based network equipment. …

In my last blog, we briefly touched upon the advanced use cases that are possible in 5G. One such use case is Network Slicing. 5G cellular services should broadly support …

Is open RAN right for near-term rip-and-replace? Huawei equipment has been ordered removed from networks in the United States and the United Kingdom with speculation that other European markets could …

Nokia expects “full suite” of O-RAN interfaces available in 2021 Adding on to a recent refresh of its virtualized, cloud-based RAN solutions, Nokia today, after weeks of building up to …

History The entire telecom industry is going through a dramatic change that can be only compared to the change that data centers went through in the 2000s, all driven by …

Open RAN, as the name implies, is meant to be open to multiple vendors, both hardware and software, that work together to achieve interoperability in accordance with an operator’s needs. …

US Cellular said that an open RAN architecture can accelerate delivery of advanced 5G capabilities US Cellular is one of the latest to join the O-RAN Alliance, the world-wide community …

In my last article in this “Who Disaggregated My RAN?” blog series, we covered the advances made by the O-RAN Alliance to deliver an open Fronthaul specification that supports multiple …

Nokia exec says open RAN marked by both merit and hype Nokia and AT&T today announced a successful trial of a Radio Intelligent Controller (RIC) on the carrier’s millimeter wave …

As we saw in the last article in this blog series, the disaggregation of the RAN has opened up a number of new and exciting opportunities for a larger ecosystem …