Open RAN
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The Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) of Taiwan has partnered with the UK’s Digital Catapult to drive forward Open RAN innovation. -
SNS Telecom & IT's research report indicates the growth will be driven by AI and 5G expansion
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Digital Catapult has launched its first SONIC Labs Technology Access Programme, collaborating with leading firms to address energy efficiency challenges in Open RAN operations.
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Orange and Vodafone have expanded their pilot project in certain rural areas in Romania, including a fully integrated 2G virtualised RAN (vRAN) technology.
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Samsung and O2 Telefónica have launched their first virtualised RAN (vRAN) and Open RAN commercial site in Germany.
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Nokia and Vodafone have successfully completed an end-to end Open RAN trial on Vodafone Italy’s live 5G standalone (SA) network.
Forthcoming events
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Within the last week, Nokia has made a series of announcements about new project wins and kit deployments.
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Open RAN revenues will account for around 15% of the overall 2G-5G RAN market by 2026, according to a new estimate from the Dell’Oro group.
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Two months after Nokia announced radio access network deals with Japan’s KDDI and SoftBank, the Finnish vendor has said it is ready to supply open RAN equipment to their rival, NTT DoCoMo.
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Capacity speaks to Orange executives Olivier Simon and Arnaud Vamparys, on why Open RAN will lead to a redevelopment of the European sector.
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Equipment vendor Mavenir has announced a partnership with HCL Technologies that will help speed the move to open radio access networks (O RAN).
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Deutsche Telekom is to carry out a full trial of the open systems for 4G and 5G networks in Berlin.
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US company Viavi Solutions is working with Capgemini on a 5G and open RAN test laboratory, to be based in Portugal.
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Open RAN software company Parallel Wireless is expanding its R&D in centres in India, Israel, the US and the UK
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Ontix, a company building small-scale wireless networks in the UK, is to pilot open RAN technology inside buildings.
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Nokia has paused its activities with the industry’s leading open RAN organisation because of threats that Washington could impose the same penalties to those on Huawei.
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Japanese vendors Fujitsu and NEC are collaborating to ensure their open RAN 5G equipment works together.
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The US regulator has named the cities of Boston and Raleigh as innovation zones for the development of 5G and open RAN technologies.
