Tag: O-RAN Alliance

March 17, 2023

The O-RAN Alliance signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with OpenAirInterface Software Alliance (OAI), in which both entities agreed to cooperate on O-RAN issues, open source software development, and 5G. Under the terms of the deal, both organizations will encourage […]

November 4, 2022

The world of telecoms is, among many other things, an exercise in developing and implementing technologies that have been standardized via a regimented, consensus-driven process. A reductive example—without standards, a handset sold into the U.S. market may not function on […]

March 2, 2020

Viavi Solutions Inc. (VIAVI) (NASDAQ: VIAV) today introduced the industry’s first comprehensive test suite for O-RAN specifications. Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) is being adopted by operators and equipment manufacturers worldwide, to reduce infrastructure procurement, deployment and operational costs and […]

November 13, 2019

Vodafone has tested open RAN technologies in parts of Turkey and South Africa and, in October, began testing the radio access network equipment in the United Kingdom. And, in a presentation this week at the Telecom Infra Project Summit in […]

October 9, 2019

This is by no means new information but worth repeating: Carriers almost exclusively invest in in-building wireless systems for large venues like stadiums and transit hubs. For enterprise in-building systems, the impetus for investment falls with the building owner or […]

September 23, 2019

Focused on the goal of delivering fully disaggregated, multi-vendor radio access network sites, the Open Test and Integration Center will serve as a sandbox for vendors and carriers to explore interoperability and validation of open RAN technologies. Just like trends […]

March 7, 2019

As operators around the world continue to invest in gigabit-class LTE in tandem with early 5G NR-based networks, new more open Radio Access Network architectures are emerging to enable flexible, dense deployments that moves signal closer to the network edge. […]