KDDI launched commercial 5G in March
Finnish vendor Nokia announced that it is working with Japanese mobile operator, KDDI, in a joint initiative aimed at delivering a fully cloudified RAN solution.
The planned lab-based Proof of Concept (PoC), which will use Nokia’s AirScale All-in-Cloud BTS solution, will...
Bharti Airtel is a member of the O-RAN Alliance and TIP
Bharti Airtel has deployed Altiostar’s open virtual radio access network (vRAN) solution across multiple major cities in India, making it the first Indian operator to deploy vRAN-based 4G network. Bharti Airtel plans to develop...
Virtual RAN solutions are critical in a 5G world, says VMware
VMware, Inc. and Deutsche Telekom are collaborating on an open and intelligent virtual RAN (vRAN) platform. The platform, based on O-RAN standards and Intel’s FlexRAN architecture, will improve RAN agility for both existing LTE...
Virtualized, open RAN meant to take cost out of network deployments
Focused on the goal of delivering fully disaggregated, multi-vendor radio access network sites, the Open Test and Integration Center will serve as a sandbox for vendors and carriers to explore interoperability and validation of...
Rakuten’s network uses Intel Xeon processors and Intel FPGAs for acceleration
Intel has confirmed that it will provide technology to Japanese e-commerce and internet services provider Rakuten for a new cloud-native network.
Intel said in a statement that the new network will be fully virtualized from...
Altiostar to showcase its vRAN solution at Mobile World Congress, 2016 in Barcelona
Tewksbury, Massachusetts, US – February 18, 2015 – Altiostar announces its participation and demonstration of its industry leading carrier-grade Ethernet-based virtualized RAN (vRAN) solution that implements LTE-Advanced features and brings intelligence to...
At the RAN USA conference in San Francisco at the end of January, Chih-Lin I from China Mobile reminded us ETSI its Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) framework span the entire network, from the core to the RAN. The RAN is an essential part of...
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