Tag: Open-RAN

July 1, 2024

European carriers Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefonica, TIM and Vodafone Group have released an update on the technical priorities of Open RAN, the telcos said in a joint statement. The update is the result of the work carried out by these […]

May 23, 2024

Open technology appeals to enterprises that want to avoid vendor lock-in. But to deliver real value, open-model technologies need to do more. While some enterprises looking at private 5G have followed 5G’s Open RAN development as part of their assessment […]

February 14, 2024

Samsung Electronics and Vodafone, in collaboration with AMD, yesterday announced that they have successfully demonstrated an end-to-end call with the latest AMD processors enabling Open RAN technology, a first for the industry. This joint achievement represents the companies’ technical leadership […]

February 8, 2024

Open RAN (O-RAN) revenue is set to decline in 2023, following an impressive increase between 2019 and 2022, according to a recently published report by Dell’Oro Group. The report highlighted that market conditions will remain challenging over the near-term but […]

December 15, 2023

The Open RAN Alliance said that it has successfully concluded its fall 2023 plugfest. The event was co-hosted by 24 major operators, OTICs and independent institutions for testing, the organization said. It ran from September-November 2023 and was held in […]

December 7, 2023

AT&T announced this week that it wants to have 70% of its traffic on open network platforms within the next few years and will spend up to $14 billion with Ericsson to make that happen. In remarks at the UBS […]

October 10, 2023

Vodafone and Orange announced that they have successfully conducted a pilot with the first real-life experience of 4G calls over a cluster of shared commercial network sites in a rural area near Bucharest, Romania, based on Open RAN technology. This […]

September 27, 2023

Open RAN contains multitudes. It’s an ideological movement grounded in the belief that a diverse radio supplier ecosystem begets competitions which begets advantageous economics which begets more and faster innovation. It’s an ongoing and collaborative process of standardizing interfaces between […]

September 26, 2023

Beginning in 2018, Rakuten Mobile, a subsidiary of Japanese conglomerate Rakuten Group, started deploying a greenfield Open RAN network. Since then, Rakuten Group has also spun off hardware/software and consultancy vendor Rakuten Symphony to sell its technology stack and approach […]

September 26, 2023

With Dell’Oro Group estimating that Open RAN manufacturer revenues accounted for a mid-single digit share ($2 billion to $3 billion) of the total $40 billion annual RAN market in 2022, analyst Stefan Pongratz expects disaggregated radio systems to steadily grow […]

September 8, 2023

As 5G continues to evolve, it also continues to become more complex. Virtualization and disaggregation are happening in tandem with deployment of network workloads in hybrid cloud environments, including distributed clouds deep in the network at radio sites or even […]

July 11, 2023

Rakuten Mobile announced launch of a research and development project into development of advanced Open RAN integration infrastructure. As part of this research and development project, Rakuten Mobile will collaborate with Rakuten Symphony to develop standardized Open RAN software, proof-of-concept […]

June 29, 2023

The CampusDynA consortium, comprising of German industry leaders such as Gestalt Robotics, T-Systems, OSRAM, Fraunhofer, and Werner-von-Siemens Center for Industry and Science, has chosen IS-Wireless as the provider of the 5G network based on the Open RAN model. It will […]

April 28, 2023

Ericsson continues to drive the Open RAN and Cloud RAN ecosystem forward, adding Dell Technologies as a Cloud RAN infrastructure collaborator. Expanding the ecosystem with new collaborators and technologies is one of the key drivers in Open RAN and Cloud […]

April 3, 2023

Open RAN progress, both as an ideological movement and a specific set of interoperable, standards-based technologies, was on display this year at Mobile World Congress 2023 in Barcelona. Evidenced by ongoing advancements from an ever-growing pool of vendors working collaboratively, […]

March 14, 2023

Keysight Technologies announced that its Keysight Open RAN Architect (KORA) solutions have been added to CableLabs’ 5G Lab to validate the interoperability of open radio access network (O-RAN) components during the 2023 5G Challenge, sponsored by the National Telecommunications and […]

March 8, 2023

Optical computing and cellular mesh R&D company GXC has deployed its 5G Open RAN solution at the Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific (NIWC Pacific) facility in San Diego, California. The solution is part of the facility’s private 5G systems, which […]

March 7, 2023

Qualcomm again demonstrated the ongoing strength of its diversification push during Mobile World Congress with a number of partner announcements highlighting the semiconductor specialist’s growth in 5G infrastructure. Building on its established small cell chipset business, Qualcomm is pushing into […]

March 3, 2023

It was a hectic week for test and measurement vendors at Mobile World Congress 2023, with a slew of announcements, and demonstrations across the Fira, that illuminate where the industry’s attention and development efforts are focused. Power usage—specifically, telecom equipment […]

February 28, 2023

Igal Elbaz, AT&T’s CTO for networks, has words for Open RAN doubters: Open RAN is going to happen, because it’s that important to telecom innovation. It’s just a matter of when, and he said there are two factors which will […]