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Companies to collaborate with Intel and Supermicro to bring cost-effective rural and urban coverage
NASHUA, N.H., April 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Parallel Wireless, Inc., the leading U.S.-based Open RAN company, today announced its partnership with Etisalat, one of the world s leading telco operators in Afghanistan (recognized by Ookla® Speedtest® as the world s fastest mobile network in 2020) to deliver the world s first cloud-native O-RAN compliant 5G 4G 3G 2G Open RAN solutions, in collaboration with Intel and Supermicro, becoming the first in Central Asia to implement Open RAN.
Afghanistan has seen a strong increase in mobile broadband with penetration reaching 22% in 2019 up from 1% in 2013. While mobile broadband is still in its early stages of development, growth is expected in 2022.
But still some way to go before standards-based tech can match mainstream products
Matthew Hughes Tue 9 Mar 2021 // 10:15 UTC Share
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Last year Vodafone bet big on OpenRAN, announcing it would shift a huge portion of its tower estate to the standards-based tech. Now Andrea Donà, the telco s director of network and development, has shed some light on how this will work.
Speaking to Telecom TV, Donà said Vodafone had already deployed two OpenRAN sites to its production network, situated in the southwest of England. These deployments are part of its testing process, which Donà said would conclude in May.
The wide-scale macro rollout, which will replace roughly 2,600 4G masts with OpenRAN alternatives, is expected to commence later this year, winding up in 2027 in time to meet the UK government s edict to excise high-risk vendors from the telecommunications networks.
Jan 21, 2021
Samsung Electronics announced its latest 5G advancement with the recent rollout of the company’s vRAN 2.0 solutions, the first fully virtualized commercial 5G RAN delivered end-to-end from a single vendor. This will help create more programmable networks that dynamically and efficiently provide the appropriate network resources to customers who use a variety of advanced wireless services and applications.
Verizon is the first mobile technology company carrier to deploy Samsung’s fully virtualized 5G solutions. In a recent announcement, Verizon shared details on this new virtualized network technology, along with the extension of their 5G network to millions of people in towns and cities across multiple U.S. regions.
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Advantech will contribute with proven telecom edge server designs that optimize performance per watt while meeting base station hardware reliability, maintainability and environmental needs
TAIPEI, Taiwan–(BUSINESS WIRE)–
Advantech (TWSE: 2395.TW), a global leader in industrial IoT, today announced that it has joined the O-RAN ALLIANCE, a world-wide community of mobile network operators, vendors, and institutions that works to re-shape the Radio Access Network (RAN) industry. With over 20 years of experience providing mission-critical hardware to the telecom industry, Advantech will contribute with compact and reliable commercial-off-the-shelf server designs that are capable of sustained communication workload processing at the network edge.