Orange builds head of steam as open RAN targets loom

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Speaking at Network X, Atoosa Hatefi confirmed Orange procurement will be mandating RAN open interfaces from 2025, with TCO scale in Europe envisioned by 2030. stc, Qualcomm and Wind River also see remaining ORAN hurdles overcome. Read more… 

This article includes:

  • Events: Mobile World Congress 2023; Network X 2024.
  • Geographic: Bucharest; Europe; Finland; France; Japan; Paris; Romania; Saudi Arabia; Spain; Vietnam.
  • Organisations: AirHop Communications; Amazon Web Services; Casa Systems; Dell; Deutsche Telekom; Elisa; Heavy Reading; HPE; Juniper Networks; KDDI; Mavenir; NEC; NTT DOCOMO; Orange Group; Orange Spain; Qualcomm Technologies International; Red Hat; Samsung; Saudi Telecom Company (stc); Telecom Italia (TIM); Telefónica; Verizon; Viettel; Vodafone; Wind River.
  • People: Atoosa Hatefi; Gabriel Brown; George Tsirtsis; Randy Cox; Saif Alajaji.
  • Themes: 3.5GHz spectrum; 5G network; Accelerator Card; 5G standalone (5G SA); 6G; Chipsets; Cloud native; Distributed Unit (DU); Fronthaul standard; Massive MIMO; Network equipment refresh cycles; Non standalone 5G (5G NSA); Open fronthaul standard; Open interfaces; Open radio access network; Open RAN (ORAN); Open RAN Technical Priorities Release 4; Pikeo; Radio Unit(RU); Total cost of ownership (TCO); Virtualised distributed unit; Virtualised RAN; X100 5G RAN Accelerator Card.

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