History
Some estimates put the telecom industry, especially the RAN segment, between seven and ten years behind a normal innovation curve due to the lack of competition in the market. This is a similar situation to the state of the data center industry in the...
In conjunction with a wide swath of industry stakeholders, the United States federal government is working to form and implement the creatively-titled National Strategy to Secure 5G. Signed by President Trump in March, the strategy has three primary goals: “facilitating domestic 5G rollout; assessing...
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. But why is this RU, DU, CU functional split concept becoming so fundamental in Open...
FCC cuts off Universal Service Fund money to buy and maintain US networks that use Chinese kit
It's been a long time coming but, despite the protracted journey, reaching the destination still stings for the small and rural domestic mobile network operators that use network...
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 Moore’s Law. This is driving the need to move from costly, proprietary RAN solutions to...
Inland using Parallel Wireless RRHs connected to virtualized baseband running on Dell EMC servers
Open radio access network technologies, which disaggregate hardware from software potentially creating a cost benefit to operators, have been discussed as a potential solution for smaller U.S. operators looking to move...
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 work together with equipment OEMs to develop radio units compatible with the frequency bands used...
When you see the many announcements around innovation in OpenRAN for 5G, what you may not realize is that the 4G and 5G-only OpenRAN approach is only suited for greenfield deployments. So, what does that mean for brownfield or existing wireless networks? There are...
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 discusses Open RAN momentum from the perspective of both network economics and global regulatory machinations; and...
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 Fund for Electronic Communications to provide cellular systems to extend connectivity into underserved and unserved...
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...
The GSMA GLOMO awards highlight those at the forefront of mobile innovation
BARCELONA--The GSMA released the winners of the 2020 Global Mobile (GLOMO) Awards, which call out the companies and individuals at the forefront of mobile innovation. The awards include a variety of categories, but...
Report: open RAN groups O-RAN Alliance and Telecom Infra Project "will align" work
A combination of factors--anti-Huawei sentiment in some global markets, 5G scale prompting network economics shake ups and a a move toward programmable, software-based networking among them, are positioning open RAN players for...
Carrier networks need increased flexibility as they juggle 5G with legacy technologies
This year, carriers across the globe will be considering how they can cost-effectively roll out new 5G networks, whilst reducing complexity in their legacy 2G/3G/4G infrastructure.
In developing markets, carriers face the challenge of...
As open RAN moves toward tipping point, how will the vendor dynamics shake out?
LOS ANGELES--Major, multi-national operators, as well as numerous others in the telecoms business, have thrown their lots in with the open RAN movement. The idea is to use commoditized hardware to...
Network operators will spend more than $20 billion this year on rural cell sites on a global basis, up 1.2% from 2018, according to a recent report from ABI Research.
"Mobile operators are responding to local community and state regulatory pressure to ensure mobile cellular...
Telecom operators around the world have faced the struggles of declining ARPU, intense competition, as well as rising CAPEX and OPEX. With 5G on the horizon, the economics of the mobile industry have to change. The layered approach of adding the next G (generation...
Precision agriculture is a key focus of rural 5G trial
While the long-term plan for 5G is widespread coverage, we're still in the early days and commercial deployments are largely focused on major metro markets. However, Cisco U.K., along with partners are looking "beyond the...
https://youtu.be/BiZ-2J0cuYA
In this video, Rajesh Mishra, president, founder, and CTO of Parallel Wireless shared how the company is reimagining the network with its Open RAN 2G/3G/4G cellular solution. The company has been deployed and in production trials on 6 continents, solving TCO, backhaul, install and...
The TC3 Summit, hosted by by the Telecom Council of Silicon Valley, is one of the more interesting industry events we cover each year, and the 10th anniversary show, held in November at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., was no exception....
With 40% of emerging markets still anticipated to use 2G in 2020 (according to GSMA), the cost savings and simplification of Parallel Wireless solution allow global operators to bring connectivity to these markets while enabling an easy and cost-effective migration path to 3G/4G/5G.
This solution...
Ice Wireless leverages Parallel Wireless' small cells, HetNet gateways and software-defined radios to deliver rural mobile broadband
In Northern Canada--the provinces of Northwest Territories, Yukon, Nunavut and Quebec--the population density is 0.03 people per square kilometer. A rural population, coupled with harsh conditions, makes this...
Bring Your Own Coverage (BYOC) from Parallel Wireless creates instant easy to deploy coverage in areas where it is non-existent (tunnels, parking garage, etc.) or compromised
With FirstNet and ESN initiatives, many countries are looking into rolling out a nationwide public safety broadband network. In order...
Parallel Wireless' rural small cell solution help global mobile operators to connect the unconnected on accelerated timeline while meeting national and local regulatory requirements. The globally proven solution changes the economics of bringing the wireless coverage, and also eliminates the majority of deployment challenges...
