Canadian operator Telus and Samsung Electronics announced that they will build what they say will be Canada’s first commercial virtualized and Open RAN (O-RAN) network.
The companies said they are expanding their collaboration from greenfield to brownfield deployments.
The partners also noted that this deployment will be the first truly virtualized O-RAN deployment within a brownfield network environment.
With O-RAN, Telus said it will be able to use components from different manufacturers, while a virtualized radio access network (vRAN) allows the use of software instead of hardware.
