RF front-end business sees significant year-over-year gains with global mmWave investments creating growth tailwinds Reporting its fourth quarter and fiscal year 2020 results on Wednesday, Qualcomm
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Japan’s Rakuten Mobile joins O-RAN Alliance
Rakuten Mobile CTO takes spot on O-RAN Alliance board Japanese operator Rakuten Mobile, a subsidiary of e-commerce giant Rakuten, announced it has joined the O-RAN Alliance,
Intel has signed a partnership with U.S. operator Dish Nework to supply virtualized RAN (vRAN) equipment for a standalone 5G deployment, the chipmaker said in
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What is Infrastructure 2.0 and why do we need it?
Qualcomm President: ‘5G requires infrastructure like we’ve never seen’ At Qualcomm’s annual 5G Summit, the company announced the expansion of its 5G RAN portfolio. The additions,
Japanese vendor NEC will play a role in the development of next-generation 5G wireless networks in the U.K., according to reports published by Japanese newspapers. In
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Ericsson Cloud RAN solution puts customers on the path to open, flexible 5G
The Cloud RAN solution supports Ericsson Spectrum Sharing and 5G SA and NSA Ericsson has announced Cloud RAN (Radio Access Network), a new solution to be
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NEC, ADI to provide 5G O-RAN Massive MIMO Radio for Rakuten Mobile
Japan’s NEC Corporation and global high-performance analog technology company Analog Devices (ADI) announced a partnership to design a 5G Network Massive MIMO Antenna Radio Unit
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Qualcomm’s new RAN chipsets to accelerate migration to toward Open RANs (Analyst Angle)
Earlier this week, Qualcomm announced new chipsets for Virtualized Radio Access Network (vRAN) and open networks, adding to its existing small cell chipset product line
Building out a wireless network is expensive, and most of the CAPEX is related to the radio access network (RAN) segment, reaching as high as
There’s a lot of explaining to do around Open RAN, both in terms of what it is and what it is not, even as U.S.
Qualcomm Technologies will be using open Radio Access Network testing solutions from Keysight Technologies in multiple test beds in New Jersey, as the chipmaker develops
How Open RAN can drive 5G forward
This trend of disaggregation, virtualization and commoditization has implications beyond just Open RAN. 5G was intentionally designed to be flexible and adaptable. As such, the
Open RAN Policy Coalition In May this year, the Open RAN Policy Coalition was established to advocate for “vendor choice and flexibility in next-generation network deployments,”
5 Open RAN terms to know
Like most things telecom, Open RAN brings with it a complex alphabet soup of acronyms and initialisms. Here we’re providing brief explanations of some key