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News Wire Feed Light Reading 3/9/2021 KFAR SAVA, Israel – Silicom Ltd. (NASDAQ: SILC), a leading provider of networking and data infrastructure solutions, today announced the launch of its O-RAN compliant, Evenstar Distributed Unit (DU) in collaboration with Facebook Connectivity and other Evenstar partners. The Evenstar DU addresses the growing mobile operator demand for best-in-breed, unbundled DUs that meet 3GPP and O-RAN specifications in ord...

Deutsche Telekom (DT) says it has completed its first video call using the standalone version of 5G technology in Germany. The German operator set up its first 5G SA antenna site in the town of Garching, near Munich. It said the call was made to nearby Bamberg and then Bonn, using the new 5G standalone core network. Few other details were provided, other than the fact that low latency was achieved and the response time in Garching was 13 milliseconds. Data driven: Deutsche Telekom continues it...

Going to the M&A well a second time in 2021, DZS has acquired RIFT, a provider of network orchestration and automation software. DZS will now look to deploy the technology to a global installed base of some 20 million mobile and fixed broadband products. RIFT and its open source "RIFT.ware" offering gives DZS an overarching software-defined network and software orchestration automaton tool that can be offered as a standalone product or in tandem with DZSs fixed and mobile networking products. R...

FiberLight operates 16,000 route miles of fiber across much of Texas and parts of Washington, DC, and Virginia, offering standard enterprise telecom services, including transport, backhaul and data center connections. But with $1.8 million in winnings from the recent FCC Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) auction, the company plans to catapult itself into the cutting edge of wireless technology with a mix of 5G components leveraging open RAN technologies. The move would put FiberLight alongs...

Synopsis OpenRAN enables hardware and software to be disaggregated, unlike conventional radio gears, allowing technology products from different suppliers to co-exist with various software providers. Agencies Representative Image The Open Radio Access Network (RAN) technology will allow Indian telecom service providers to “fundamentally” transform the way they manage and architect their future platform for the 5G technology, said Rakuten group chief technical officer Tareq Amin. During a fi...

Borje Ekholm nonetheless thinks large-scale open RAN is years away.

Social distancing just became even harder in the bustling market for open RAN technology after HPE today set up its own server stall replete with orchestration bells and whistles. The US IT giant has been desperate to uncover a new growth opportunity. Sales fell 3.6% last year, to $56.6 billion, and earnings slumped 10%, to about $2.8 billion. It evidently believes the communications sector is a good bet. Hence the unveiling of HPE Communications Technology Group (CTG), which lumps together va...

Mavenir, Red Hat claim mobile network infrastructure transformation Further development in software-defined mobile network technology as cloud-native network software and systems integration provider collaborates with open source operating system firm Share this item with your network: By Published: 24 Feb 2021 13:55 End-to-end network software provider Mavenir has announced a strategic collaboration with Red Hat to certify Mavenir applications for mobile networks with the Red Hat OpenShif...

FCC Acting Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel plans to open an inquiry on how the agency might promote open RAN technology.

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