Parallel Wireless already deployed O-RAN sites in Nigeria, Tanzania, Guinea Conakry, Ghana, South Sudan, Uganda, DRC and Malawi
U.S.-based Open RAN (O-RAN) firm Parallel Wireless said it has already deployed a total of 1,500 sites across Africa.
Parallel Wireless partnered with regional telecommunications providers and...
Parallel Wireless said its 5G SA solution is purposefully architected to run on any general-purpose computing platform
U.S.-based Open RAN (O-RAN) firm Parallel Wireless announced the general availability of what it claims to be the world’s first hardware-agnostic 5G Standalone (SA) software stack.
The company noted...
Analysts remain optimistic that the job cuts don’t suggest larger problems brewing beneath the surface
Open RAN vendor Parallel Wireless reported widespread layoffs earlier this week, citing economic conditions and the slower-than-expected pace of Open RAN adoption. While the company has not disclosed a number,...
Operators are looking for cost reduction in both CAPEX and OPEX — and RAN is one of the biggest cost factors for operators. It is also one of the most challenging areas when introducing new features and services. Tackling the RAN will have the...
Eugina Jordan, the VP of of marketing at Parallel Wireless, comes on the podcast to provide a few reality checks about Open RAN and poses some questions of her own.
Open RAN is much more than just an opportunity to diversify vendor supply chains and introduce open standards into networks. It is an opportunity to innovate within what has always been a very hardware-centric and fixed part of the network. Part of that innovation...
Mobile operators Brisanet, Claro, TIM and Vivo are partners in the O-RAN program
U.S.-based Open RAN company Parallel Wireless said it is partnering with Inatel, Telecom Infra Project (TIP), Brisanet, Claro, TIM, and Vivo to conduct a field trial enabling leading-edge 4G and 5G broadband...
Open RAN trial also includes Accenture and Tech Mahindra
Rakuten Symphony kept the playing the hits today at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, announcing a three-country Open RAN trial with operator MTN. Throughout the week, Rakuten Symphony has discussed its Symworld and Symware portfolios, announced...
The companies are currently testing Open RAN in the Türk Telekom Innovation Center in Turkey
Türk Telekom is teaming up with Parallel Wireless and Juniper Networks on a multivendor Open RAN initiative that will see the carrier deploy Open RAN technology utilizing the RAN Intelligent...
Juniper Networks announced that it is working with Vodafone and Parallel Wireless, conducting a multi-vendor Radio Access Network Intelligent Controller (RIC) trial for tenant-aware admission control use cases.
The trial, initially running in Vodafone’s test labs in Turkey and with plans to move into its...
U.S.-based Open RAN company Parallel Wireless announced the opening of a research and development (R&D) lab and testing facility in Ottawa, Canada to further develop 5G radio access equipment and expand the firm's global presence.
Maxime Dumas, general manager of Parallel Wireless in Canada said,...
Arm has opened a virtual ‘5G solutions lab’ with India-based system integrator Tech Mahindra. The setup will provide a live test environment for Arm’s customers in chip production, network design, network operation, and enterprise fields to demo 5G network solutions, it said. In particular,...
Note, this article is taken from a longer editorial report on private 5G enterprise NOCs; to access the report, click here, or on the image below. For the attendant webinar on the same subject, including panellists from ABI Research, Vodafone, and Radisys, go here.
US-based Radisys,...
Parallel Wireless and Neptune Communications will use Open RAN to provide mission-critical voice, data service to government agencies in Barbados
Parallel Wireless and Neptune Communications are laying claim to delivering the first Open RAN (O-RAN) compliant 4G LTE solution in the Caribbean. Neptune’s 4G LTE...
Millicom has selected Parallel Wireless for the deployment of O-RAN-compliant Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) architecture in Latin America.
The O-RAN network will be deployed by Millicom’s subsidiary Tigo Colombia, with the aim of delivering 4G service coverage in 362 rural sites across the...
Etisalat signed an MoU with Rakuten Communications Platform for cloud-native, Open RAN support
Etisalat, following a joint announcement with Rakuten Communications Platform to develop a reference design for cloud-native, Open RAN networks, is furthering its commitment to disaggregation of the radio access network through a...
Pilot in Wales scaling up to 2,600 Open RAN sites in Wales and England
In August this year, Vodafone U.K. turned on its first Open RAN site at the Royal Welsh Showground in Powys, Wales. That particular project used software from the U.S.-based vendor Mavenir...
Building out a wireless network is expensive, and most of the CAPEX is related to the radio access network (RAN) segment, reaching as high as 80% of total network cost.
For decades, operators have been “locked in” to legacy RAN vendors, like Huawei, Ericsson and...
Like most things telecom, Open RAN brings with it a complex alphabet soup of acronyms and initialisms. Here we’re providing brief explanations of some key terminology. And, to be sure, this is a superficial description of the following terms and a fraction of the...
ip.access brings 2G, 3G support to Mavenir's Open RAN offering
Open RAN continues to gain momentum globally, although the primary proof points have been greenfield network builds like Rakuten Mobile's in Japan, which is up and running LTE services, and DISH's under construction 5G standalone...
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Most of the CAPEX required to build a wireless network is related to the RAN segment, reaching as high as 80% of the total network cost. Any reduction in the RAN equipment cost will significantly help the bottom line of wireless operators as they...
Open RAN deployments seeing traction is rural markets
Parallel Wireless on July 16 announced it is working with multi-national carrier Orange to use its disaggregated Open RAN technology to expand coverage in the operator's Central African Republic network footprint. In addition to the coverage boost,...
Spending on private and shared enterprise networks will surpass spending on public cellular networks in about 15 years. The traditional operator community has a fight on its hands to guarantee a place at the table, as the new Industry 4.0 networking feast unfolds over...
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