Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo and compatriot firm NEC announced that they have expanded multi-vendor interoperability by interconnecting a new 5G base station baseband unit (5G-CU/DU), developed by NEC and Samsung Electronics and compliant with O-RAN Alliance specifications, with 5G base station remote radio units...
The true benefits of 5G will be realized with massive scale, something that operators will have to pay mightily to achieve. In carrier-led effort to shift network economics in their favor, the open RAN ecosystem has flourished in recent years and is poised for...
Keysight’s latest 5G webinars ensure you can both define the acronyms and understand the technology and challenges. A few of the trending hot topics:
O-RAN for 5G: The Path Forward
5G NR Dynamic Spectrum Sharing (DSS)
5G SA and NSA Field Measurements
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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 of more than 190 mobile operators, vendors and research and academic institutions operating in the...
Disaggregated RAN: How it all falls in place
The promise of 5G is unlocking significant change and sparking the 4th Industrial Revolution, driving use cases such as industrial IoT and improved healthcare, to augmented reality, autonomous vehicles and smart cities. But if 5G is to...
The O-RAN is looking to revolutionize the way wireless communications systems are built. Their core tenants of using virtualized networks, white box hardware, and standardized interfaces aim to promote openness and innovation in 5G systems.
Being open to collaborative problem solving accelerates time to innovation, return
Open radio access networks are a hot topic in telecom right now with major, multinational operators looking to break out of the big, end-to-end vendor ecosystem potentially in favor of smaller companies working together...
Viavi Solutions, which is a member of the Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) Alliance, is bolstering the open RAN ecosystem with what it claims is the first comprehensive test suite for O-RAN specifications. The test company will be showcasing its O-RAN test prowess in...
At this year’s VZTUF event, SOLiD President Ken Sandfeld offered his perspective on initial commercial deployments of the 3.5 GHz CBRS band as well as SOLiD’s newest product to support CBRS, the ALLIANCE edgeROU (or eROU). He also shared his thoughts on the adoption...
Mobile operators are transforming their networks to keep up with the demands of next-generation connectivity and user experience. Next-generation wireless networks must have the flexibility and expandability to support billions of connected devices, new services, and applications that will drive new business efficiencies and...
