Vodafone revamps its top tech team
Sunrise preps major job cuts
Rosenworcel takes the ‘acting’ hot seat at the FCC
Samsung’s reminder of its cloud-oriented competitive edge in the RAN sector and some new tech roles at the Vodafone Group are the movers and shakers in today’s merry news dance.
Samsung has thrown down something of a gauntlet to its mobile access infrastructure rivals with the announcement of vRAN 2.0, a fully virtualized, cloud native, containerized and commercially available 5G radio access network system that, it says, is already deployed in
Verizon’s live network, along with the vendor’s Dynamic Spectrum Sharing (DSS) technology. “With a vRAN approach, carriers are able to rapidly shift capacity to address customer needs. For business customers, vRAN can drive more efficient access to private 5G networks through easy deployment of baseband software in Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) facilities,” states Samsung in this announcement. Verizon, which last year chose Samsung over Nokia as its second 5G RAN vendor, announced the expansion of its 5G network and broader availability of its 5G services at the start of January.