The groups hope to kickstart 5G RAN xApp research with the new tool
Mavenir has announced the release of ns-O-RAN, an open-source Open RAN simulator developed with researchers at Northeastern University’s Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things (WIoT). Mavenir claims it’s the first open-source platform for end-to-end...
Throughout the Open RAN Global Forum (register for on-demand access to the virtual event here), there was a recurring theme around Open RAN being part of a larger technological transformation encompassing the move towards cloud, software, data and more IT-centric operations. This shift is...
TCS will host its Cognitive Network Operations Platforms on Wind River Studio, said a TCS VP
Wind River announced this week a collaboration with Tata Consulting Services (TCS), the IT services consulting business of Indian multinational Tata. The two companies will work together to create...
Orange has made large-scale commitments to deploy Open RAN systems across its network footprint over the coming decade. Ahead of large-scale deployments, the operator has built an experimental network in Lannion, France, that uses Open RAN along with a cloud-native approach to 5G with...
The consensus is that interoperability has made material progress but there's still work to do
As Open RAN has gained momentum in recent years, there’s been this recurring talking point around modular radio system hardware and software being assembled and disassembled to support operators’ specific...
Open RAN one of many vectors of network transformation focused on service differentiation, operational efficiencies
In the process of building out, expanding and advancing its 5G network, Verizon has for several years gone through a very material network transformation. In the two previous installments in...
Using Google, Anthos to deliver 5G services will help CSPs save money and reduce complexity, said Mavenir
Mavenir announced Friday plans to make its 5G solutions available on Google Cloud. The move will help Communication Service Providers (CSPs) deploy Mavenir’s cloud-native 5G products and apps...
Dell and Wind River are offering CSPs out-of-the-box Open RAN and VRAN deployments
Dell Technologies this week introduced Telecom Infrastructure Blocks, a new telco cloud infrastructure solution the company co-engineered with Wind River. The "blocks" offer Communication Service Providers (CSPs) with simplified telco cloud network deployment...
Verizon has deployed Open RAN compliant, multi-vendor cell sites
Verizon has deployed virtualized radio access network (vRAN) kit at some 8,000 5G sites, both mmWave and C-Band, and plans to use this architecture at 20,000 total by the end of 2025. The operator has targeted...
1&1 had contracted the deployment of its 5G network infrastructure to three companies
German operator 1&1 is experiencing delays in the deployment of its 5G network, and it won't be able to meet its deployment goals for this year, according to local press reports and...
In an increasingly complex and technology driven market, mobile network operators and infrastructures are facing the challenges of reducing costs and increasing competitiveness. At the same time, investments in infrastructure and resources are required to ensure the successful rollout of new services and technologies...
Verizon also highlighted that it is beginning to deploy 100 megahertz of C-band spectrum in many markets across the U.S.
Verizon said it has already deployed over 8,000 virtualized RAN (vRAN) cell sites with a goal of deploying over 20,000 by the end of 2025,...
Rome wasn’t built in a day. The same can be said of cloud-native, AI-optimized 5G open radio access networks (O-RANs), which are fundamentally different from any previous mobile generation. They are not just evolutionary, but a step change in how radio networks are designed...
Dell Technologies is supporting T-Mobile US and Dish 5G efforts
Dell Technologies has been tracking the move of data creation and processing out of centralized data centers and to the various edges, and adapting its products and services to address this market shift for some...
The Open RAN RIC will bring CI/CD processes to telecom
Although 5G still has a long tail of innovation left as it advanced to 5G Advanced with Release 18, there’s already material work happening focused on framing what its predecessor, 6G, will look like. One...
The why and how of Open RAN, capex/opex savings and through honest collaboration, have been pretty well sorted. Now it’s time to leverage the capabilities of virtualized, open, multi-vendor solutions to deliver innovation.
For operators, hosting radio workloads in cloud environments can facilitate a host...
Picocom President: “We need a healthy ecosystem of semiconductor vendors in the Open RAN world selling chips that are freely available to anyone that wants to buy them.”
The RAN Intelligent Controller is seen as a key way that Open RAN can provide operators with...
While Mavenir’s John Baker, senior Vice President of business development, is clear-eyed about challenges, both technical and business, the Open RAN ecosystem and other stakeholders need to work through, he sees material progress in adoption of open, multi-vendor radio systems as well as a...
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...
Mavenir is 'looking to optimize,' said executive
A month and a half after reports emerged about widespread layoffs at Parallel Wireless, Mavenir, another Open RAN vendor, appears to be doing the same. Just like in the case of Parallel, Mavenir’s marketing team has reportedly...
The RIC is key to Open RAN network programmability and automation
Looking past the TCO benefits associated with Open RAN, the real value operators are chasing (and vendors are working to prove out and monetize) has to do with new, innovative ways of operating disaggregated...
Airspan says its private networks and FWA opportunities are growing, but chipset challenges remain
Airspan reported second-quarter revenues up 12% year-over-year but saw a year-over-year increase in its quarterly loss as it continues to deal with chipset-related delays.
The company reported second-quarter revenues of $46.9...
Open RAN has been the subject of earnest development for a number of years and has seen large-scale commercial deployment by three major global operators building new networks with significant commitments from many large brownfield CSPs. Reducing TCO through vendor competition, component commoditization and...
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...
