Displaying items by tag: Open RAN

Test and monitoring solutions provider Viavi Solutions has expanded its automated Lab-as-a-Service for Open RAN testing facility VALOR Lab with an RF-shielded anechoic chamber and two additional customer labs.

Telkom Kenya has partnered with Japan-based technology services provider Rakuten Symphony and US-based Open RAN developer Airspan Networks, to develop and test Open RAN technology in the East African nation.

Open RAN solutions provider OREX SAI has signed an MoU with Singapore telco StarHub to jointly deploy commercial Open RAN solutions for StarHub’s Cloud Infinity and 4G/5G macro network.

Australia's largest telecoms provider Telstra has partnered with equipment vendor Ericsson on a four year project to build what they claim will be the first programmable network in the Asia Pacific region.

Japanese communications devices maker Kyocera has announced that together with six other telecommunications hardware manufacturers will establish the "O-RU Alliance" in March 2025.

Philippines telco PLDT and its wireless arm Smart, in collaboration with telco industry players and academia, has unveiled the first Open RAN laboratory in the South East Asian nation of islands.

Telecommunications equipment vendor Nokia has won a deal with German telco Deutsche Telekom (DT) which will see it replace Chinese vendor Huawei at more than 3,000 sites to support the operator’s multi-vendor Open RAN network scale-up in Germany.

Korean standards certification group the Telecommunications Technology Association (TTA) and interoperability standards organisation O-RAN Alliance have signed a cooperation agreement that enables the adoption of O-RAN Alliance specifications to TTA standards.

Korean electronics giant Samsung has been selected by Japanese telecoms operator KDDI to provide 4G and 5G O-RAN compliant virtualised Radio Access Network (vRAN) solutions for its Open RAN deployment in Japan.

The broader Open RAN movement has come a long way in just a few years, but the results have been mixed, according to market research firm Dell’Oro Group.

Vodafone Romania has picked Samsung Electronics to deploy its fully virtualised RAN software (vRAN) and radio solutions to roll out Open RAN in Romania.

Network connectivity provider CommScope introduced three Open RAN (Radio Access Network) advances to its network portfolio, which it said facilitated “open, sustainable, and converged 5G indoor networks.”

EchoStar subsidiary Dish Wireless has bagged a US$50 million grant from the US Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), which will be used to fund and establish the Open RAN Centre for Integration & Deployment (Orcid).

Market research firm Dell’Oro Group has lowered its forecast for the telecom server market relative to its October 2022 report citing factors including economic headwinds leading to reduced spending on mobile network infrastructure and challenges with the adoption of Open RAN and MEC.

Samsung Electronics and O₂ Telefónica jointly trialled advanced cloud-native vRAN and Open RAN technologies in several lab and field tests in Germany.

Samsung and telco companies Vodafone and Orange have completed the first 4G calls over shared commercial networks in rural Romania trialed on Open RAN.

Samsung is supplying virtualised and open RAN network equipment to power Vodafone's 2,500 mobile sites in Wales and South Wales in England by 2027.

Cellular provider Cellcom and technology service provider Parallel Wireless have deployed autonomous 5G SA core sites in Israel.

Japanese mobile operator NTT Docomo will showcase exhibitions and presentations focused on 6G, open RAN, extended reality and will promote international standardisation and global business for next-generation communication technologies for the first time since the pandemic at MWC Barcelona 2023 from 27 February and 2 March.

After four years of growth that propelled the radio access network market to reach new record levels, the RAN market is transitioning from expansion to the next phase in 5G journey with more challenging comparisons and slower growth, according to market research firm Dell’Oro Group.