Search Results for: Open RAN
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
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Their Hyperscaler Partners: Huge Financial Risks and Open-Weight Competition
Hyperscaler AI Revenue Hurdle: In an analysis released last month, Jared Bernstein estimated that the big-spending hyperscalers need $13-$18 trillion in revenues over the next 10 years to justify their AI-infrastructure investments. This is, by definition, speculative work, requiring judgment calls on technical aspects of the analysis, such as discount rates, depreciation schedules, taxes, and revenue… Read more
Deutsche Telekom: Device-to-Cloud AI Traffic Won’t Force RAN Upgrades or Increase CAPEX
Introduction: Deutsche Telekom has dismissed vendor expectations for an immediate surge in mobile uplink capital expenditures driven by end point device-to-cloud AI traffic. The carrier maintains that its current network modernization plans are sufficient to handle incoming AI workloads without increasing incremental capex. The friction between vendor expectations (e.g., Ericsson, Nokia, etc.) and actual network… Read more
AI-Native 6G RAN in Practice: Research and Validation Insights from 6G-MIRAI-HARMONY
By Shammi Thakur, Research Director, MarkNtel Advisors with Shazia Hasnie, PhD Introduction: A wireless AI model can perform well in the laboratory and still face a very different test once the radio environment changes. However, propagation conditions shift as users move. Traffic loads vary. Devices and carrier frequencies differ. Hardware introduces imperfections that a clean… Read more
Light Counting: optical transceiver sales surge; IEEE 802.3 and ITU-T optical transport standards explained/UEC addendum
Sales of All Types of Optical Transceivers Set New Records: Light Counting reports that the sales of optical transceivers, shown in the first figure below, illustrates the new record set in Q2 2026 and estimates for the rest of 2026. Sales of Ethernet transceivers currently account for about 80% of the total market. Shipments of… Read more
FCC plans 6G spectrum auctions before IMT 2030 frequencies have been identified and without a 6G frequency arrangement standard
Executive Summary: Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr said Wednesday that a series of planned wireless-spectrum auctions could generate more than $100 billion in proceeds over the next several years. In July, the FCC voted to conduct a 2027 auction of 160 megahertz of mid-band spectrum in the Upper C-Band (3.98–4.2 GHz), creating a contiguous… Read more