Open-RAN

History Functional splits are nothing new. They were initially outlined in 3GPP Release 14 and defined in 3GPP release 15 and where new terminology, interfaces and functional modules were introduced. …

In this series focused on the benefits of a disaggregated Open RAN, we have had a chance to see how an open RAN has helped expand the ecosystem and led …

The decision is being seen by some as an attempt to better align itself with Japanese firm Rakuten Dish Network will use Altiostar’s cloud-native O-RAN compliant solution for its 5G …

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 …

The arrival of RAN disaggregation and the corresponding standards for open interfaces, hardware, software decoupling, network intelligence and automation has led to the expansion of a diverse ecosystem of RAN …

 RCR Wireless News · Will 5G Change the World? Damiano Coletti, Airspan (Ep. 12) Bringing 5G to verticals, open RAN update Airspan Vice President of Strategy and Marketing Damiano …

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 …

Open RAN vendors organizing to have radios ready to replace rural Huawei kit The open RAN hits keep on coming with key players Altiostar and Mavenir this morning they will …

 RCR Wireless News · Will 5G Change The World? Farid Firouzbakht, CommScope (Ep. 10) Massive MIMO, open RAN and more This week CommScope’s Farid Firouzbakht, senior vice president and …

In my first blog in this new Who Disaggregated My RAN? series, “How it All Falls in Place,” I provided the background that led to the industry’s push for the …

Network operators  worldwide are turning to open radio access network (O-RAN) architectures in an effort to simplify 5G RAN deployment and management, allowing more efficient scalability to meet rising data …

Open RAN movement latest front in larger geopolitical conflict With the benefit of hindsight, the 5G New Radio standard was collaboratively developed by organizations like 3GPP with a broad goal …

RCR Wireless News · Will 5G Change the World? Arun Bhikshesvaran, Radisys (Ep. 9) This week on Will 5G Change the World?, Radisys CEO Arun Bhikshesvaran discusses his favorite journey, …

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 …

5G is meant to be flexible so its radio access network should be too Nokia is unique compared to its competitors Ericsson and Huawei in that the company has amped …

As Ansel Adams put it, “There’s nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept The story of open RAN is nuanced. Beyond the formidable technology piece, geopolitics inform …

Before the COVID-19 crisis, the Altiostar management team was scheduled to attend an FCC public event on 5G as well as the White House Summit on 5G, both of which …

Open RAN Policy Coalition launched this week with key operator members In examining the long arc of open radio access networks, the focus of groups like the O-RAN Alliance and …

RCR Wireless News · Will 5G Change The World? Steve Papa, Parallel Wireless (Ep.5) Discussing open RAN as the conversation turns from tech to policy Parallel Wireless CEO Steve Papa …

Open RAN group ties COVID-19 pandemic to RAN vendor choice, security and performance A new group of operators and telecom network hardware and software vendors announced today the formation of …

  The 5G networks of tomorrow will need to strike the right balance of products and solutions in order to address the complexities of rolling out and servicing the applications …

Parallel Wireless CEO: “We have an all G world for a long period of time” U.S.-based OpenRAN provider Parallel Wireless this week announced it was selected by the Ghana Investment …

Cisco, Altiostar, WWT creating vRAN hardware/software/services bundle to drive 5G deployment Building a virtualized radio access network built of best-of-breed components made interoperable through the work of groups like the …