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O-RAN Alliance, Telecom Infra Project (TIP) & OCP Telco may open up telecom equipment market to new entrants
“There was more choice of network equipment suppliers 15 years ago than there is now and the industry is keen on expanding that vendor ecosystem,” Vodafone Group PLC’s Head of Network Strategy and Architecture, Santiago Tenorio, told Dow Jones Newswires. For sure, the telecom industry would like to have more network equipment vendors to diversify… Read more
TIP OpenRAN and O-RAN Alliance liaison and collaboration for Open Radio Access Networks
Overview: The Telecom Infra Project (TIP) OpenRAN project and the O-RAN Alliance today announced a liaison agreement to ensure their alignment in developing interoperable, disaggregated and open Radio Access Network (RAN) solutions. Since their inception, the overlapping efforts of the two consortiums led to a lot of questions about duplication of work, different specs and… Read more
NEC and Mavenir collaborate to deliver 5G Open vRAN platform
NEC Corp. and Mavenir entered a collaboration agreement to deliver a 5G Open virtualized RAN (vRAN) platform to the Japanese enterprise market. This move will open up Local/Private 5G Network opportunities for enterprises, regional authorities and other organizations, according to the companies. Under this collaboration, NEC and Mavenir said they will jointly work on 5G… Read more
O-RAN Alliance and Linux Foundation form O-RAN Open Source Community; Open Networking Assessment and Telcos
On April 2nd, the O-RAN Alliance and the Linux Foundation jointly announced the creation of the O-RAN Software Community (O-RAN SC). The O-RAN SC will provide open software aligned with the O-RAN Alliance’s open architecture. As a new open source community under the Linux Foundation, the O-RAN SC is sponsored by the O-RAN Alliance, and together… Read more
HKT & Huawei Open Digital Transformation Practice Center in Hong Kong; Indoor 5G Whitepaper
Hong Kong network operator HKT and China IT powerhouse Huawei jointly inaugurated the Digital Transformation Practice Center (DTPC) yesterday in Hong Kong. The DTPC will share the experience and practices of HKT gained during its digital transformation journey, and help guide the digitalization process of other carriers in their development of digital transformation, HKT said…. Read more
Ericsson leads SK Telecom AI RAN vs. NVIDIA’s GPU centric AI RAN Alliance
Executive Summary: Ericsson says it has been selected as the sole global technology partner in SK Telecom’s consortium for Korea’s Hyper-AI Network Infrastructure Demonstration Project, a South Korea government-backed initiative led by the Ministry of Science and ICT and the National Information Society Agency. The program is intended to validate AI-RAN pilot networks as a… Read more
Analysis: Nokia’s new AI-RAN platform and Standalone AI-RAN node with Nvidia GPUs
Nokia today announced what it describes as the first commercial AI-RAN platform, signaling a potentially significant inflection point in radio access network architecture. As AI workloads increasingly influence network design and operations, service providers are under pressure to deliver higher capacity, improved cost efficiency, and faster service innovation without depending on traditional hardware refresh cycles…. Read more
TM Forum’s DTW Ignite 2026: Open Digital Architecture (ODA); Nokia, Ericsson, IBM and Mavenir AI announcements/cloud partnerships
The ongoing DTW Ignite 2026 conference [1.] represents a major shift for the telecom industry from theoretical AI experimentation to practical, code-proven execution under the core theme, “The Future Faster.” “The Race to 2030” & Core Theme: Shift to Action: TM Forum Vice President Aaron Boasman-Patel and CEO Nik Willetts opened the summit emphasizing that… Read more
AI-Era Cloud Network Transformation: A Reference Architecture and Implementation Roadmap
By Shazia Hasnie, PhD Introduction: The physical network infrastructure that underpins cloud computing was designed for an era that no longer exists. Distributed training across hundreds of thousands of GPUs, real-time inference at the edge, and autonomous agent coordination impose requirements that traditional cloud network designs were never intended to meet. The networks that served… Read more
AI-RAN and Agentic AI get real: Ericsson, Nokia, Verizon & other operators enter into a new network automation era
Disclaimer: Perplexity.ai was used for research in this article. Executive Summary: A cluster of announcements in early-to-mid June 2026 signals a real shift from AI research to commercial AI-driven network automation. Telcos are transitioning from isolated AI pilots to production-grade AI operations deployed across live networks. Ericsson launched its AI in RAN commercial software subscription… Read more