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Swedish telecom firm Ericsson has launched new RAN units which are hardware prepared for Open RAN deployments. It has been working with the industry through the O-RAN Alliance to reach critical milestones towards defining the next generation open fronthaul interface required to bring performance at scale to Open RAN.

​What was expected to be a game changer, though has yet to make much headway in India, except for a few trials and deployments. Experts cite several challenges for the deployment to pick up, but say it would happen in another two-three years. One of the reasons for the slow adoption is that India has yet to see the deployment of private networks, where companies setting up their own captive communication networks may go for the cheaper technology.

Traditionally, RAN - the basic building block of a telecom network - has proprietary technologies of global players such as Ericsson, Nokia, Huawei and ZTE etc. Telecom players have to buy an entire block - software and hardware from one vendor, while through Open RAN, they can mix and match software and hardware components, ultimately bringing in more innovation by diversifying the ecosystem.

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

Its an exciting time to be in telecoms. However, it has never been more challenging to navigate. Where do businesses start and what support is out there?

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

Why Open RAN is key to strategic autonomy and security.

MWC Americas had some advancements in 5G and Open RAN, but it also highlighted that the industry is on a different and much slower path than many initially expected.

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...

Ericssons Jejdling said that the companies will expand their collaboration to work together with the ecosystem to accelerate “industry-scale open RAN utilizing standard Intel Xeon-based platforms”.