OpenRAN
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Orange has deployed OpenRAN nodes connected to a cloud-native 5G standalone (SA) core network to make a successful data connection.
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Network API exposure is a top five priority for 73% of communication service providers (CSPs), who are turning to open APIs (application programming interface), and SDK (software development kits) to enable software developers to create programmes that offer 5G services to customers.
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Ericsson is boosting its Open RAN and Cloud RAN ecosystem through a partnership with US-based AMD.
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Nokia has announced the launch of anyRAN as it aims to drive Cloud RAN partnerships.
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Juniper and Vodafone along with Parallel Wireless has achieved a successful field trial, delivering Open RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) on a network.
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Vodafone has built a prototype 5G network using a Raspberry Pi computer that can serve a home or office.
Forthcoming events
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Open RAN continues to move at a faster pace than expected, with its revenues more than doubling on a year-on-year basis according to a recently published report from Dell’Oro Group.
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Vodafone and Nokia have agreed to work on a fully compliant Open RAN solution, the companies announced today.
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Mavenir, the software company that is funded by the climate-change and 2020 election denying Koch family, is working with Google Cloud to make available cloud-native 5G solutions.
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Parallel Wireless CEO Steve Papa has blamed customers wanting to move too fast to open RAN for the company’s mass firings last month.
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Former Parallel Wireless staff in India, Israel, the UK and the US are looking for work following wide-scale layoffs in the open RAN specialist this week.
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Mavenir has opened a Centre of Excellence focusing on OpenRAN capabilities in Bonn, Germany.
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Indian operator Airtel has achieved speeds of more than 1Gbps in trials of cloud-based open RAN technology.
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Orange and other members of the OpenRAN MoU Group including TIM, Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom and Vodafone has announced their latest technical priorities surrounding the OpenRAN (memorandum of understanding) MoU signed last year.
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The UK government has approved plans to fund a new organisation dedicated to boosting innovation in the country’s telecoms supply chain.
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Capacity shares five key stories making headlines around the world today.
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Japanese operator KDDI has chosen Californian vendor Wind River for its O-RAN-compliant 5G virtualised base station plans.
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Capacity shares five key stories to watch from around the world today.
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Vodafone will work with IntelCorp and other silicon vendors to design its own chipsets in OpenRAN technology.
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Vodafone has switched on the UK’s first 5G OpenRAN site in Bath.
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DISH Network has a new president and COO, following the promotion of John Swieringa.
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NEC has announced it has successfully demonstrated OpenRAN capabilities for the Global Plugfest event at five of its venues.
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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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The UK government has revealed that it has committed £250m of investment to support and accelerate OpenRAN architecture.
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Capacity shares five key stories from around the world making headlines today!
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Mavenir's 4G Open RAN small cell for outdoor deployments is now commercially available.
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Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telecom Italia (TIM), Telefónica and Vodafone have submitted five recommendations to the European Union (EU) to build an Open RAN ecosystem in Europe.
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Open RAN will create a more open, flexible and adaptable network for the mobile industry according to research from CCS Insight.
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Capacity shares five key stories from around the world making headlines today!
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US-based Dish has selected NEXSYS-ONE’s 5G network deployment platform to support the buildout of its OpenRAN-based 5G network.
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IBM and Airspan Networks have announced plans to collaborate on the launch of a 5G-enabled Open RAN testbed.
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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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The development of Open Radio Access Networks will bring big benefits to the UK economy, writes Sally Bament, VP, cloud and service provider marketing at Juniper Networks
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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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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.
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Japanese group Rakuten is transforming itself into a vendor as well as an operator with an agreed bid for Altiostar, valuing the vendor at US$1 billion.
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Five Middle East mobile operators have announced they are working together to push forward their work towards open RAN technology in their networks.
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Vodafone and Mavenir said today they are working on a small cell solution based on open RAN technology, to provide indoor 4G connectivity for business customers.
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Orange has announced what it calls “the network of the future”, an experimental cloud-based network that it hopes will eventually provide “ambient connectivity”.
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Deutsche Telekom has switched on its first open RAN service, in the north German town of Neubrandenburg.
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Mavenir has jumped in ahead of next week’s mainly virtual Mobile World Congress to announce a 4G and 5G partnership with chipmaker Qualcomm.
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Nokia got it wrong with its first attempt to develop 5G equipment, but now thinks it’s turned itself around, the company has admitted.
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Deutsche Telekom has taken a clear step towards the adoption of cloud-native 5G services, working with one of the main suppliers to the emerging open RAN business.
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MTN has picked two Indian companies and three US companies for its move to open RAN technology, which it plans to start this year.
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Nokia has moved into the open RAN era by opening its first collaboration and testing centre, open to competing vendors.
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The top four vendors in the emerging open RAN market are Parallel Wireless, Altiostar, Intel and Mavenir, according to a new report.
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Altice takes BT stake; Colony Capital rebrands; QTS breaks records; and Ivo Ivanov talks Space-IX
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Italian operator TIM has set up an open RAN test and integration lab in the city of Turin.
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The five large European telcos working together on open RAN have published their list of technical priorities as a way of encouraging vendors to move into the business.
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Rakuten Mobile and its equipment supplier NEC are to work together to promote open RAN networks worldwide.
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Vodafone and Qualcomm Technologies will partner to develop the technical blueprint for equipment suppliers to deliver 5G networks using Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) technology.
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TIM has deployed its first open RAN network following an agreement between five European operators earlier this year to work together on new network technology.
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Mavenir, the open RAN company that last year abandoned a US$300 million share flotation plan, has had a $500 million investment from part of the Koch family group.
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The UK is too small to influence to market for telecoms infrastructure, says a new report to the country’s government. And there is no long-term solution to the problem of replacing Huawei kit in the four UK mobile networks.
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Open RAN in Afghanistan, acquisition plans from Digital 9, digital hubs in West Africa and an interview with TSF
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Etisalat is building a cloud-native open radio access network (open RAN) service in Afghanistan.
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Ericsson is to open a collaborative research lab in Ottawa where it will test and co-create new virtualized 5G Radio Access Networks (RAN) technologies.
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Japanese technology company Rakuten, which has launched a cloud-based 5G network, has raised 242 billion yen (US$2.2 billion) by selling stakes to Japan Post, Tencent and Walmart.
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Five of the world’s largest telecoms groups have announced an accelerated programme to implement open 4G and 5G this year. Alan Burkitt-Gray looks at why the field has suddenly opened up
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The Facebook-backed project that is supporting open-source mobile technology has started a new unit to promote private 5G networks.
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TIM — the former Telecom Italia — has joined the alliance last month between four giant European groups to work together on open radio access networks (open RANs) for mobile.
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Four operators in Indonesia have successfully carried out the first trial of open-source radio technology, a technique some see as bringing down the cost of mobile services.
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Telefonica UK's O2 has completed a successful Open RAN trial on its network with NEC and its partners Altiostar, GigaTera Communications and Supermicro, among others.
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President Joe Biden has confirmed Jessica Rosenworcel as the person who will chair the US telecoms regulator.
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Four European telecoms giants are joining forces to promote the roll-out of open-source mobile technology.
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The UK mobile telecoms industry will continue to rely on the Ericsson-Nokia duopoly and the open-source equipment industry is still some years from maturity.
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Open-source mobile vendor Mavenir has taken a major step to move many of its products to the cloud.
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It is already the fastest growing mobile technology in history, but the success of 5G in 2021 depends, like so much else, on the Covid-19 pandemic. Alan Burkitt-Gray looks at the mobile industry’s forecasts
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A Nigerian company that specialises in building mobile networks for rural areas is to install open-source technology to deliver 2G, 3G and 4G wholesale services, upgradable to 5G.
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Telefónica’s O2 UK is the latest company to test open-source radio technology, in a trial with UK and Irish vendor Vilicom.
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Japanese incumbent telco NTT and vendor NEC are working together to compete with US-based internet giants in future wireless and optical networks, and to wrest control away from largely English-speaking companies.
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Open RAN is on track to see a year on year growth of 250% in 2020, despite the sector comprising a mere 1% of the total market.
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NEC’s new centre of excellence in London for 5G open systems will address a global market, according to a senior executive in Japan.
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The UK government is spending £250 million to help open up the mobile telecoms supply chain and end the dependence on three key suppliers, Ericsson, Huawei and Nokia.
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NEC, the vendor that is already supplying open-source 5G equipment to Japan’s Rakuten, is to set up a centre of excellence in the UK.
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Nokia has introduced an AI enhancement that sits at the network edge and promises to enhance the 5G customer experience around gaming and streaming.
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Vodafone is to deploy open radio access network (open RAN) technology on 2,600 sites in the UK, one of the biggest such investments yet.
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Mavenir, the open RAN specialist that in September bought UK small-cell company ip.access, has withdrawn its plan to raise US$300 million on the US Nasdaq market.
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When it comes to supplying Europe’s next generation of mobile equipment Huawei is out… but who (and what) is in? Alan Burkitt-Gray examines the future role of Open RAN.
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Open radio access networks (open RAN) will account for 58% of total RAN capex by 2026 and will be deployed at 65% of all sites.
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US open RAN specialist Mavenir has bought UK small-cell company ip.access in a move that will further consolidate a rapidly growing sector of the mobile equipment industry.
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Mavenir and Turkcell together have completed the first OpenRAN vRAN call fully containerised with O-RAN Split 7.2 architecture, in Turkey
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Japanese retailer Rakuten is set to launch its 5G network next month, the first in the world to be using open standards for its radio network.
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Orange is taking the first steps to move to open RAN in its African mobile networks, a step that will see the operators able to offer 4G and potentially 5G as well as older generations.
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Four UK government departments are considering moves to spend millions to enable some of the country’s surviving telecoms engineering talent to rebuild a manufacturing capability.
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Japanese operator Rakuten Mobile is to produce its cloud-based 5G system with NEC after a joint development project.
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Capacity shares 5 key stories from around the world making headlines today!
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Parallel Wireless, a provider of OpenRAN solutions, has announced that Etisalat is set to trial Parallel Wireless’ 2G, 3G, 4G & 5G OpenRAN across its markets in Middle East, Asia and Africa.