Open Radio Access Networks: disaggregated, multi-vendor mobile network architecture, O-RAN ALLIANCE specifications, RIC, and virtualized RAN deployments.
Over fifteen years, the Open RAN initiative evolved from a China Mobile white paper to a $10 billion movement, yet the RAN market has…
AT&T's recent $14 billion deal with Ericsson marks a significant commitment to Open RAN, aiming to shift 70% of wireless traffic to open platforms…
In the past year, Europe has taken significant steps towards Open RAN, highlighted by a joint declaration from major operators like Telefónica and Vodafone.…
The O-RAN Alliance, founded in 2018 by AT&T and China Mobile, has shifted discussions from cost and vendor independence to sovereignty concerns. As governments…
An e-commerce company just switched on a national mobile network, fully virtualized Open RAN on commodity servers, in the middle of a pandemic. The…
A year ago I said a press release with five logos does not lay fiber. The first Open Fronthaul specification just landed at Barcelona,…
AT&T and China Mobile just co-founded the same alliance. The xRAN Forum and the C-RAN Alliance are merging into the O-RAN Alliance, and the…
A Stanford professor and two tier-one operators just launched a forum to turn the radio access network into open software running on ordinary servers.…
China Mobile's research institute wants to empty every cell tower, pull the baseband back into one central pool, and turn the radio network into…