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 RAN. In addition to looking how buy-in from incumbent vendors can accelerate Open RAN...
SRG's testing said that erratic voice, downlink speeds have improved
What difference has a year made in Dish Wireless' network performance in its inaugural market? Better voice quality and faster downlink speeds, according to recent testing and analysis from Signals Research Group.
SRG first tested...
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 advanced cloud-native virtualized Radio Access Network (vRAN) and Open RAN technologies in several lab and...
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 comply with national-level regulations concerning the replacement of equipment from Chinese vendors, as well...
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 (HDD) environments
NEC and Freshwave have been selected for Project NAVIGATE in the U.K. government's...
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 cellular traffic originates indoors, this is hardly surprising; macro networks have difficulty penetrating indoor...
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 automation processes. To the automation point, this is where the Open RAN RIC, or...
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 difference between in-line and look-aside acceleration for Open RAN silicon.
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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 program. The carrier completed a series of 4G calls over a cluster of shared commercial...
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, is exactly the work that Samsung Networks has been doing in Open RAN and...
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 least, viewed as the brains of the network--the thing that will propel Open RAN from...
Intel sees the combination of 5G and AI as “transforming dreams into reality”
Intel has been an ecosystem and market leader as operators turn to new virtualized and open 5G RAN architectures. With silicon support, partnerships and reference designs for vRAN and Open RAN, Intel...
New global organization will focus on "shared priorities" including open networks and diversifying the telecom supply chain
The United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Japan have joined together to form the new Global Coalition on Telecommunications (GCOT).
The partners say that they will...
4G revolutionized data throughput and latency, offering simplified architecture and scalable networks; 5G propels us even further. With latency below 5 ms and remarkably higher speeds, it unlocks real-time processing, enabling AI/ML in diverse scenarios: intelligent transportation for smart cities, energy-efficient homes, secure autonomous...
Orange says the combination introduces the ability to activate networks faster and delivers flexibility, optimization
Orange Spain has successfully tested a data connection using Open RAN equipment and a cloud-native Standalone (SA) 5G core network, a combination the carrier said introduces the ability to activate...
Understand the key requirements for establishing a CI/CD/CT pipeline to manage Open RAN
Beyond just opening up radio system interfaces to connect hardware and software components from different vendors, one of the big ideas of Open RAN is the parallel move to cloud-based environments and...
Mavenir said the two projects are part of the U.K. government's Open Networks Ecosystem Competition
Network software provider Mavenir said it has been awarded two 5G Open RAN (O-RAN) projects, as part of the U.K. government’s Open Networks Ecosystem Competition, which aims to foster the...
A Q&A with Dish’s Sidd Chenumolu on the public cloud, network programmability and the role of the RIC
Dish Wireless has reached major coverage milestones in its effort to build out a nationwide Standalone 5G network using Open RAN principles. Company Vice President of Technology...
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...
As brownfield Open RAN deployments pick up and interoperability processes are refined, questions around fiber expense and massive MIMO still dog the ecosystem
Open RAN has come a long way since the days of the xRAN Forum and C-RAN Alliance. Standards have been developed and...
NTT Docomo partnered with Nvidia, Fujitsu and Wind River on the GPU-accelerated 5G network
NTT Docomo this week announced the deployment of a GPU-accelerated wireless solution in its network in Japan, reportedly making it the first telco in the world to adopt a GPU-accelerated commercial 5G network and...
Keysight updates on Open RAN innovations and the testing processes behind them
Open RAN contains multitudes. It’s an ideological movement grounded in the belief that a diverse radio supplier ecosystem begets competitions which begets advantageous economics which begets more and faster innovation. It’s an ongoing...
5G growth is a persistent trend across industries, and reports have forecasted that 5G subscriptions will reach 4.4 billion globally by the end of 2027, accounting for approximately 48% of total global mobile subscriptions.
5G network technologies are evolving faster than any previous generation, with cloudification...
Rakuten Symphony talks Open RAN benefits and bringing radio disaggregation to brownfield network environments
Beginning in 2018, Rakuten Mobile, a subsidiary of Japanese conglomerate Rakuten Group, started deploying a greenfield Open RAN network. Since then, Rakuten Group has also spun off hardware/software and consultancy vendor...
