Whitepaper
Download the Open RAN whitepaper to understand the parameters, challenges, and benefits of greenfield vs. brownfield deployments.
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Samsung will provide its advanced private 5G network solutions to an array of entities in the public and private sectors — including energy, safety, water resource management, medical services and medical education.
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FoundrySix, Stops, & weR leverage T‑Mobile’s 5G network to build immersive AR applications using the Snapdragon Spaces XR Developer Platform.
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Mobile Edge Computing (MEC), is challenging to implement and requires support for network parameters of most of the use cases. Telco Edge nodes are not only contained with network functions but also applications workloads are deployed to deliver services to edge serving devices.
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Nokia and Safaricom successfully piloted Africa’s first 4G/5G fixed wireless access (FWA) network slicing in Kenya’s Western Region, a first step towards launching commercial slicing services to offer customers a more personalised network experience.
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Private 4G/5G provides Teltech’s 200,000 sqft warehouse to retain the accuracy needed for inventory levels, without allocating costly and hard-to-acquire human resources, allowing them to keep more focus on higher-performing functions.
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Adani Data Networks Ltd, the Adani Group subsidiary, will start with 5G services in six service areas and use the spectrum for data center businesses.
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With in‑stadium 5G upgrades, T-Mobile now delivers average speeds up to 10 times faster than before, with more upgrades to come.
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Reliance Jio is likely going to launch an affordable 5G smartphone to prepare the Indian market to consume its 5G services. The 5G smartphone from Jio might cost less than Rs 12,000 in India.
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MediaTek powered a smartphone with a 5G Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) connection in a lab environment for the first time in collaboration with Rohde & Schwarz. 5G NTN technology will help boost service reliability across the globe by harnessing existing terrestrial networks and economies of scale in the cellular sector, making fast and reliable 5G connectivity much more accessible in unserved and underserved areas.
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Smart and Omnispace are collaborating to explore space-based 5G technologies for use cases such as enabling 5G connectivity in remote areas, incorporating IoT and sensors for use in monitoring weather disturbances and natural calamities, and augmenting network coverage for disaster relief, maritime and telematics for vessels and equipment in Philippine market.
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The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) plans to auction 5,500 MHz of 5G spectrum in the millimeter wave (37.0–42.5 GHz) band, valued at over Rs 35,000 crore. The spectrum can potentially be used for private networks in addition to mobile and satellite services.
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Data cooperatives are paving the way for cluster innovation organizations to create a safe innovation space, bringing stakeholders together to understand the digital transformation journey, and create a business model that will transform the future of technology. Marco Hernandez, GXC’s Sales Operations Manager, sits down with Joshua Berger, CEO of Maritime Blue, and Aaron Reich, part of Avanade’s Innovation and Incubation Team – to speak to the benefits of multi-party systems coming together in the ecosystem, to collaborate and share data, that will bring a tremendous value over the next several years.
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Vodafone and Bayer deployed private 5G network in a greenhouse in Germany to gain new knowledge about plant health quickly and make industry and agriculture even more sustainable with automated processes and real-time processing of large amounts of data.
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DoT invited applications from enterprises willing to set up private 5G networks to undertake demand studies for direct spectrum assignment.
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BBC R&D tested 5G standalone non-public networks to provide live pictures of 2022 Commonwealth Games from the center of Birmingham. British Telecom (BT) provided the network and backhaul and Vislink subsidiary Mobile Viewpoint provided the technology that encodes and manages the video stream over the networks.
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Kajeet Smart Private 5G™ Platform and Samsung’s latest 5G RAN innovations to power smart cities, school campuses, utility grids, & factories. The education sector will be the first area of focus for the Kajeet and Samsung collaboration.
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Vodafone Germany has activated 5G at 1,400 waterway locations in Germany and another 700 expansion projects planned in the next twelve months.
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Based on this power optimization capability, DT and Intel have achieved roughly 30% vRAN CPU power consumption reduction.
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The Open RAN challenges can broadly be categorized into System Integration and Operation Model challenges, per Petr Ledl, Vice President and Head of Network Trials and Integration Lab, Deutsche Telekom.
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Deutsche Telekom introduced a vendor-independent Service Management and Orchestration (SMO) component based on ONAP open source to automate services on all network domains, to manage disaggregated RAN complexity.
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The main learnings from DT’s open and virtualized RAN deployment are related to more responsbility for operators and performance and operational evaluation.
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The key components Deutsche Telekom’s Open RAN Journey include O-RAN town, automation, industry ecosystem, skills development, new operating model, and vendor selection.
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In advancing Singapore’s 5G ecosystem, the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) is working with industry to unlock the real value of 5G by shaping new business use-cases and enabling enterprises to commercialise, locally and globally.
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The Department of Defense’s Innovate Beyond 5G (IB5G) Program recently kicked off three new projects that continue to advance DoD collaborative partnerships with industry and academia for 5G-to-NextG wireless technologies.
