Did Open RAN deliver on the technological and market-based promises it was meant to bring to? Tough question. And what were those initial promises again? We went back through the O-RAN Alliance archives to a white paper published in October 2018. At that time,...
Open RAN technology is proven and operators are committed, but the lingering questions around integration costs and lifecycle management in a multi-vendor network remain
A panel comprising a leading Open RAN vendor, a leading Open RAN test firm, and a major global operator dissected the...
Wind River says the match-up with Rakuten Symphony will deliver more flexibility and choice for operators
Edge software provider Wind River announced this week a collaboration with Rakuten Symphony to accelerate telco adoption of Open RAN technology. Rakuten Symphony has expanded its partner ecosystem for Open RAN 4G and 5G...
A Huawei rip-and-replace mandate prompted Telus to pivot to Open RAN
Canadian operator Telus began working on virtualized Open RAN with Samsung in June 2020, and in February 2024 expanded that collaboration to include its 4G and 5G networks. Prompted by a governmental mandate to...
The launch follows successful tests Vodafone started with Samsung and other partners last year in Romania
Vodafone said it is installing new Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) sites in 20 cities across Romania.
In Romania, Vodafone said it is working with several partners, including Samsung for...
While Open RAN vendors are focused on hardware/software disaggregation and interoperability, operators also need RAN reaggregation
As commercial Open RAN deployments, particularly in brownfield network environments, begin to ramp, the longstanding focus on ensuring interoperability between disaggregated radio hardware and software could stand to move...
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...
Vodafone said its O-RAN program is supported by Samsung, Intel, Keysight, Dell Technologies, Capgemini and Wind River
U.K. telco Vodafone confirmed it has officially started the installation of Open RAN (O-RAN) equipment for 2,500 sites in Wales and in certain regions of England, the telco...
California-based compute software vendor Wind River has announced a couple of notable deals; it has deployed a fully-automated edge data centre for Finnish telco Elisa, and also struck a deal with China-based Horizon Robotics to collaborate on edge systems for advanced driver assist systems...
The partners said they had also participated in the O-RAN Alliance's global plugfest for spring 2023
Asian companies KT, NTT Docomo and Fujitsu, together with SOLiD, Keysight Technologies and Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), said they have successfully conducted an interoperability test using virtualized...
Through products and partnerships, Dell Technologies is pushing open network architectures as a key enabler of 5G monetization
Dell Technologies sees significant growth potential as telecom networks transition to cloud environments, hardware and software is disaggregated, and compute is distributed throughout the network to operator's,...
Recent research shows moving more workloads to the edge can optimize overall utilization and efficiency
Part of optimizing networks now means not just optimizing service performance and RF performance, but placement of compute workloads: In a data center or at the edge? This has implications...
KDDI has started to deploy 5G vRAN sites in the city of Osaka last month
Wind River announced that its Wind River Studio is being used by Japanese operator KDDI for its O-RANÂ-compliant 5G virtualized base station, which began commercial deployment last month in Osaka,...
At Mobile World Congress Las Vegas, Dell Technologies and Wind River jointly announced Dell Telecom Infrastructure Blocks for Wind River, which will simplify telco cloud network deployment and management. These Telecom Infrastructure Blocks are built on Dell’s PowerEdge server portfolio, its bare metal orchestrator...
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...
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...
Dell, HPE, Intel, Red Hat, Wind River working with Samsung on multi-vendor "solution roadmaps"
Samsung Networks has been at the front of the push toward virtualization of radio access networks and is now working with key hardware, software and silicon partners to conduct interoperability...
KDDI has commercial, 5G Standalone network using Open RAN equipment
Wind River, a specialist in software for mission-critical intelligent systems, announced that Japanese carrier KDDI has used Wind River Studio for its O-RAN–compliant 5G Standalone virtualized base station technology, which has recently launched on its...
U.K. carrier Vodafone announced it has switched on what it claims to be the first 5G Open RAN (O-RAN) site in the country, the telco said in a release.
The site installed in the city of Bath is the first of 2,500 5G and 4G...
Wind River, Intel joint development meant to give operators deployment flexibility, lower TCO of 5G vRAN systems
Operators globally are gradually undertaking the transition to standalone 5G which involves a transition to cloud-native core and virtualization of the radio access network. The implementation of vRAN, however,...
UK-based carrier Vodafone has selected Dell, NEC, Samsung Electronics, Wind River, Capgemini Engineering and Keysight Technologies to jointly deliver the first commercial deployment of Open Radio Access Network (RAN) in Europe.
Vodafone said its initial focus will be on the 2,500 sites in the U.K....
As service providers move towards 5G in order to realize improved service, operational agility, and greater revenue potential, there is a technology evolution in infrastructure to shift from monolithic, vertically integrated solutions to disaggregated models based on virtualization and the cloud for distributed networks....
