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News Wire Feed Light Reading 3/17/2021 TOKYO – Rakuten Mobile, Inc., and Airspan Networks, Inc., today announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to have Airspan offer on the Rakuten Communications Platform (RCP) its complete vRAN hardware and software platform OpenRANGE, based on O-RAN specifications. Under the agreement, Airspan will also aim to collaborate with Rakuten Mobile on RCP go-to-market (GTM) marketing strategies world-wide and jointly sell RCP with Airspan's solutions to telco operators, enterprises and government...

News Wire Feed Light Reading 3/17/2021 WASHINGTON, DC – The Federal Communications Commission today adopted a Notice of Inquiry to start a formal discussion on the opportunities and potential challenges presented by open and virtualized radio access networks, and how the FCC might leverage these concepts to support network security and 5G leadership. The FCC seeks comment on the current status of development and deployment, whether and how the FCC might foster the success of these technologies, and how to support competitiveness and new entran...

Nokia has clearly been saving up all its major public cloud announcements in order to make one big splash: the Finnish vendor has unveiled partnerships with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure – all focusing on collaboration in the field of open and virtualized radio access networks (RAN) with private mobile networks for enterprise users as the first target market. As noted by Gabriel Brown, principal analyst at Heavy Reading, by announcing all three partnerships at the same time, "Nokia is impeccable in its neutrality and showing its commitment to cross-platform." "T...

Nokia partners with Microsoft to integrate Cloud RAN with Azure Mar 15, 2021 13:16 EDT with 3 comments Nokia and Microsoft have formed a new partnership that will see Nokia integrate its Cloud RAN technology with Microsoft’s Azure to boost end-user functionality in business scenarios. The partnership is one part of Nokia’s strategy to partner with cloud providers to deliver for end-user businesses looking to monetise their 4G and 5G deployments. Commenting on the partnership, Yousef Khalidi, Corporate Vice President, Azure for Operators at Microsoft said: “Mi...

Mar 15, 2021 12:06pm Nokia is pairing its 5G RAN technologies with cloud services from big public clouds. (Getty Images) Nokia issued a flurry of announcements today, marking all of its involvements with big cloud providers related to 5G. It is pairing its radio access network (RAN) technologies for 5G along with cloud services from Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud. The timing of Nokia’s announcements is interesting. Just last week, Nokia said it would not attend Mobile World Congress 2021, scheduled to happen as a live event in Barcelona in late June. Ericsson ha...