Jan 14, 2021
Juniper and Türk Telekom have put skin in each other’s Open RAN game by agreeing a “one-of-a-kind partnership between a supplier and a customer”
They are joining an increasingly crowded field as the industry recognises the crucial role of the RAN Intelligent Controller
Juniper Networks and Türk Telekom have joined forces to put the finishing touches to the RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) developed by Türk Telekom subsidiary Netsia. Under the deal - which involves an exclusive global licensing agreement - Juniper ends up with all the rights to Netsia’s RIC, but in return it has to develop the code further and make sure it works for Türk Telekom’s Open RAN integration, using Juniper kit (no small task in its own right). Ultimately, Türk Telekom should get a functioning Open RAN and Juniper a RIC, which is the brain of an Open RAN deployment, to sell to other customers. Presumably, Türk Telekom also wins a hefty discount for the Juniper techn
Intel CEO stepping down, VMware’s Gelsinger to take over
Airhop joins key Open RAN project at the ONF
SK Telecom gets competitive with online-only deals
A new name for the Intel hot seat plus new blood for the ONF’s Open RAN project lead the way in this expensive industry news roundup.
Intel has appointed
Pat Gelsinger (above), the current head honcho at
VMware, as its new CEO, starting 15 February. He replaces Bob Swan, who took on the role full time only two years ago, in January 2019. A message from Gelsinger to Intel s staff has been published here. Intel, in an effort to head off speculation about Swan’s departure, noted that the news
News Wire Feed Light Reading 1/12/2021
SAN DIEGO AirHop Communications, a leader in 4G and 5G Network Intelligence software platforms and solutions, today announced it has become a member of the Open Networking Foundation (ONF), a non-profit operator led consortium driving transformation of access and edge network infrastructure and business models leveraging network disaggregation, open source software and software defined standards. As a member of the ONF, AirHop will join the Software Defined Radio Access Network (SD-RAN) project community which is comprised of leading operators and technology companies who are focused on building open source components for the open RAN space in compliance with the O-RAN architecture and specifications. A key deliverable of SD-RAN is the development of an open source near-real-time RAN Intelligent Controller (n-RT-RIC) along with a set of exemplar xApps for controlling the RAN.