Sustainability is fast becoming a business imperative for the telecoms industry, driven by factors such as the UN's Race to Zero Campaign, rising energy costs, complex 5G deployments and heightened customer and shareholder expectations.RCR Wireless News' latest report, a companion piece to Telco Sustainability Forum, deep...
Getting Open RAN acceleration right directly impacts network monetization opportunities
As the Open RAN market continues to mature and evolve, there's a growing debate around whether in-line or look-aside acceleration is better-suited for lower layer processing.
The main difference between these two approaches is that in...
As the telecoms industry undergoes rapid change and digitalization, 2023 marks the year of much-needed reinvention. Both carriers and other stakeholders are facing new challenges and opportunities as they adapt, monetize and expand to meet the demands of the transforming landscape.
In the most recent...
Open RAN opens the door for network automation and service differentiation
Network and software providers would find it more useful to have less choice at every stage of future RAN specifications as the wide menu of options usually represents a challenge for companies, Picocom Chief...
This report, a companion to the Open RAN Forum, aggregates, analyzes and contextualizes the wide-ranging discussions from expert speakers, including technology buyers, sellers, policy makers and innovators driving capital and operational efficiencies from disaggregated radio systems while also charting the course to cloud-based RAN...
Open RAN standards help create a level playing field, but there has to be room for innovation
The world of telecoms is, among many other things, an exercise in developing and implementing technologies that have been standardized via a regimented, consensus-driven process. A reductive example—without...
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...
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...
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...
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...
RCR Wireless News are proud to announce Litepoint, Picocom, Viavi Solutions and Mavenir as event sponsors for the first dedicated European Open RAN event, Open RAN European Forum, taking place virtually on June 7th, 2022.
With a specific focus on European market development, at this...
The PC802 SoC is a purpose-designed SoC for 5G NR/LTE small cell disaggregated and integrated RAN architectures
Picocom has introduced the PC802 SoC (system on chip), a flexible, low power device that the company claims “empowers the innovation of a new breed of 5G NR...
As digital services evolve and users continue to demand faster speeds and higher availability, network densification is proving to be a key driver for enabling successful 5G networks. Small cells, in particular, are seen by operators as a method of increasing cellular network capacity,...
