Join this webinar for an in-depth exploration of the evolving RAN landscape. This joint webinar with Intel and Supermicro will delve into the industry’s transformation toward open and virtualized RAN architectures, highlighting the scalability, flexibility and performance benefits they bring. Discover how our collaborative...
The pair claim Liberty is the first telco to in Puerto Rico and Latin America to introduce 5G vRAN and Open RAN tech
Puerto Rican operator Liberty is collaborating with Samsung Networks Latin America to test the vendor’s O-RAN compliant virtualized Radio Access Network (vRAN) and radios in Puerto Rico. The companies claim Liberty is the first telco to in Puerto Rico and...
Over the past two years, I have gathered a ton of information about AI enhancements to the RAN and the possibility of running RAN workloads on GPUs. Many readers have seen my 40-page report in this area. They know my skepticism related to the...
Samsung said that the O-RAN deployment for Japanese telco KDDI will start next year
Korean vendor Samsung Electronics has been selected by Japanese operator KDDI as a main vendor to provide 4G and 5G Open RAN (O-RAN) compliant virtualized Radio Access Network (vRAN) solutions for...
The decline in the RAN market is expected to moderate after 2024, according to Dell'Oro
The global radio access network (RAN) market is forecast to decline at a compound annual rate of -2% during the 2024-2028 period as continued 5G investments will be offset by...
Following positive trial results and performance, Vodafone Idea said it has decided to expand Samsung deployments
Indian operator Vodafone Idea said it is actively discussing new technologies with Korean vendor Samsung, including virtualized Radio Access Network (vRAN) solutions, for its 4G and 5G deployments.
Over the...
Over the past decade, we’ve witnessed a seismic shift in the landscape of mobile networks: we've moved away from the days of bulky, dedicated hardware that dominated the scene and in its place, a new era of virtualization has blossomed. Traditional mobile networks relied...
O2 Telefonica and Samsung will add seven vRAN and O-RAN network sites in the Bavaria region
Samsung Electronics and German carrier O2 Telefónica announced that launch of their first virtualized RAN (vRAN) and Open RAN (O-RAN) commercial site in Germany following extensive trials.
The partners said...
There’s a disconnect between network infrastructure miniaturization and air-cooling techniques; liquid cooling is key to delivering vRAN for public and private networks
Operators globally are undertaking major radio access network (RAN) modernization projects with an emphasis on new distributed and open architectures and RAN virtualization...
The latest Dell Technologies PowerEdge XR8000 telco-grade servers feature the Intel 4th Gen Xeon Scalable Processors with optional vRAN Boost
With RAN modernization in the U.S. ongoing, and significant investment ramping in Europe and other markets, operators are increasingly focused on virtualization of radio access...
A recent benchmark study conducted by Signals Research Group (SRG) on behalf of Samsung Networks uncovered substantial capacity gains for 5G networks achieved with multi-user MIMO (MU-MIMO) radio technology. Using Samsung's market-leading 64T64R C-band Massive MIMO radios and virtualized radio access network (vRAN) solution...
With focuses from client to edge to RAN to core, Intel is all-in on AI for 5G
Mobile World Congress was big for Intel. In the larger sweep of 5G network disaggregation and automation, Intel has already built out a big partner ecosystem on its...
A new, joint white paper reviews the future prospects of vRAN base station equipment for use by telecommunications operators
Japanese operator NTT Docomo and South Korean carrier SK Telecom have released a white paper summarizing the technical outlook for base station equipment using virtualization technology.
The...
The partnership combines Nokia RAN software and Layer 1 acceleration with NVIDIA CPUs for Layer 2 processing and GPUs for AI and vRAN acceleration
Network equipment providers are rapidly working with partners to bring artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to bear as operators go through major...
Telus said that the commercial deployment of this technology will begin in the first half of this year
Canadian operator Telus and Samsung Electronics announced that they will build what they say will be Canada’s first commercial virtualized and Open RAN (O-RAN) network.
The companies said...
Vodafone, Samsung and AMD completed an end-to-end data call in Samsung's research and development lab in Korea, utilizing AMD processors that supported Samsung's virtualized RAN (vRAN) software, which is O-RAN compliant.
The test result exceeded 1 Gbps throughput for multiple devices on multi-cell configuration,...
Testing will first be carried out technologies at a lab in Munich, and then in a commercial 5G network in Landsberg am Lech
Samsung Electronics and O2 Telefónica are jointly trialing advanced cloud-native virtualized Radio Access Network (vRAN) and Open RAN technologies in several lab and...
When it comes to building a successful ecosystem, the work has to be broad and deep. That, said Derek Johnston, head of 5G marketing and business development at Samsung Networks, is exactly the work that Samsung Networks has been doing in Open RAN and...
Intel sees the combination of 5G and AI as “transforming dreams into reality”
Intel has been an ecosystem and market leader as operators turn to new virtualized and open 5G RAN architectures. With silicon support, partnerships and reference designs for vRAN and Open RAN, Intel...
NTT Docomo partnered with Nvidia, Fujitsu and Wind River on the GPU-accelerated 5G network
NTT Docomo this week announced the deployment of a GPU-accelerated wireless solution in its network in Japan, reportedly making it the first telco in the world to adopt a GPU-accelerated commercial 5G network and...
As Communications Service Providers (CSPs) transition from closed proprietary RAN systems to open, disaggregated solutions as part of their migration to 5G, Ethernet adapters with hardware-enhanced timing synchronization are proving essential in allowing them to build virtualized RAN (vRAN) solutions to meet their customers’...
Latest Intel processor integrates Layer 1 processing into SoC; available on Dell edge servers
Building on a strong pre-existing relationship, Dell Technologies and Intel continue to partner in an effort to accelerate commercial deployment of virtualized and open radio access networks. The latest from the...
Samsung will integrate its virtualized vRAN 3.0 software with 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors
Samsung Electronics and Intel announced this week that they are expanding their collaboration with the integration of the Samsung's virtualized radio access network (vRAN) 3.0 software with 4th Gen Intel...
Ragha Gopavarapu, a senior manager for Samsung’s carrier accounts, shares Samsung's perspective on the vRAN and Open RAN revolutions in telecom networks, and provides an update on the company's new vRAN 3.0 offering.
