Mavenir exec: 'Open RAN is about the interfaces between the elements; not the interfaces within the products'
According to Mavenir Senior Vice President of Business Development John Baker, there is still significant confusion about what Open RAN really means. In an effort to clear up...
TCS will host its Cognitive Network Operations Platforms on Wind River Studio, said a TCS VP
Wind River announced this week a collaboration with Tata Consulting Services (TCS), the IT services consulting business of Indian multinational Tata. The two companies will work together to create...
Open RAN one of many vectors of network transformation focused on service differentiation, operational efficiencies
In the process of building out, expanding and advancing its 5G network, Verizon has for several years gone through a very material network transformation. In the two previous installments in...
Dell and Wind River are offering CSPs out-of-the-box Open RAN and VRAN deployments
Dell Technologies this week introduced Telecom Infrastructure Blocks, a new telco cloud infrastructure solution the company co-engineered with Wind River. The "blocks" offer Communication Service Providers (CSPs) with simplified telco cloud network deployment...
Verizon has deployed Open RAN compliant, multi-vendor cell sites
Verizon has deployed virtualized radio access network (vRAN) kit at some 8,000 5G sites, both mmWave and C-Band, and plans to use this architecture at 20,000 total by the end of 2025. The operator has targeted...
Verizon also highlighted that it is beginning to deploy 100 megahertz of C-band spectrum in many markets across the U.S.
Verizon said it has already deployed over 8,000 virtualized RAN (vRAN) cell sites with a goal of deploying over 20,000 by the end of 2025,...
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Major Tier 1 operators are using Samsung’s cloud-native vRAN, including Open RAN, in greenfield and brownfield networks
From distributed, to centralized and now to virtualized RAN, operators are re-architecting radio networks to set the stage for dynamic, software-centric operations. And based on commercial deployments from...
Samsung Networks held its mid-year analyst day last week, giving an update on their progress on the vRAN/Open RAN front, Dish deployment, and the opportunities they see in the Private Networks space. I was among a few key analysts they invited to their offices...
Qualcomm on how to hide technical complexity and deliver private network use cases to enterprise
Delivering a private network to carpeted enterprises and heavy industries is a multi-billion dollar, long-term opportunity. But the very notion of serving the needs of a college campus and an...
Verizon sees its network future in a private, telco-grade cloud
5G has long been described as the first generation of cellular born in the cloud. While that's a reductive statement, operators are moving network functions and operational processes into the cloud, there's a heavily-debated question:...
Carriers will be able to carry out verification of vRAN at its R&D center in Yokosuka
Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo recently announced that it has begun allowing overseas mobile operators to access its Shared Open Lab, located in its R&D facility in Yokosuka, Japan, to...
Former FCC Chairman Ajit Pai joins Rakuten Symphony Board of Directors
Rakuten Symphony, the evolution of the Rakuten Communications Platform, has an anchor client in new German market entrant 1&1, has spelled out its goal to address a $100 billion market, and hit Mobile World...
The Japanese company aims to launch its new 5G vRAN solution by the end of fiscal 2022
Fujitsu announced that it has successfully developed new software virtualized radio access network (vRAN) technology with support for 5G Standalone (SA).
In a release, the Japanese company said it...
KDDI worked with partners Samsung and Fujitsu to turn on the Open RAN site in Japan
KDDI is claiming to have turned on the world's first commercial 5G Standalone (SA) Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) site in partnership with Samsung and Fujitsu. Powered by...
Korean carrier KT and Japanese tech company Fujitsu have completed a verification facility at the KT Research and Development Center in Seoul, South Korea, at which the two companies leveraged Fujitsu’s Open RAN-based 5G base station equipment to successfully test call connections during interoperability...
Dell Technologies recently announced it is delivering a fully validated solution for Mavenir Open vRAN and VMware Telco Cloud Platform to accelerate the deployment of new open radio access network (RAN) architectures and usher in a new era of 5G growth.
To accommodate the enormous amount...
