Mavenir Opens a New Development Centre for Open RAN Radio Software in UK
Accelerating the Open RAN ecosystem and local economy
Mavenir, the Network Software Provider building the future of networks with cloud-native software that runs on any cloud and transforms the way the world connects, announced today the opening of a Development Centre in Swindon, United Kingdom to develop Open RAN Radio software. The investment is part of a larger programme to increase Mavenir s presence and contributions in the UK and follows the acquisition of ip.access and the opening of the Centre of Excellence for Multi Radio Access Technology in Cambridge.
Mavenir opens Open RAN centre in UK
Orange settles in 2021 but still has pain in Spain
Decent starts to the year for two major telcos and yet another Open RAN R&D facility in the UK are the news frontrunners today.
AT&T has added to the positive service provider news from the US major operators by reporting a 2.7% year-on-year increase in first quarter revenues to $43.9 billion. “We continued to excel in growing customer relationships in our market focus areas of mobility, fiber and HBO Max,” noted CEO John Stankey. “We had another strong quarter of postpaid phone net adds, higher gross adds, lower churn and good growth in Mobility EBITDA. We also continue to increase penetration in markets where we offer fiber broadband and we’re moving quickly to deploy more fiber. HBO Max continued to deliver strong subscriber and revenue growth in advance of our international and AVOD launches planned for June.” Yesterday Verizon reported a 4% increase in first quarter sales. For
5G OpenRAN interoperability boost with UK centre March 01, 2021 // By Nick Flaherty
The SONIC centre will test out interoperability of 5G OpenRAN hardware and software in the UK, with eight companies signing up initially.
Eight 5G system developers have joined a UK centre for interoperability testing of OpenRAN technology.
The SmartRAN Open Network Interoperability Centre (SONIC) is a joint programme between UK research programme Digital Catapult and UK regulator Ofcom to test interoperability and integration of open networking solutions.
SONIC will start with OpenRAN testing in May, combining laboratory capabilities with real world indoor and outdoor deployments. The solution providers taking part in SONIC include Accelleran in the Netherlands, Phluido, Effnet in Sweden, Benetel in Ireland, Mavenir, Foxconn, NEC and Radisys.
Deliver and deploy cloud native software for mobile network services in Africa both in urban and rural areas
RICHARDSON, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Mavenir, the industry’s only end-to-end cloud-native Network Software Provider for Communications Service Providers (CSPs) is geared up to provide end-to-end solutions for mobile networks in the African Continent. Mavenir’s multigeneration solutions (2G through 5G) deliver a cost effective and technology advanced supplier alternative to transform the mobile infrastructure in the region and to expand coverage even in the most remote rural areas.
In the Mobile Core, Mavenir brings its market leading, virtualized software for core networks, providing basic and advanced services, as well as its legendary messaging capabilities, based on IP Multimedia Systems (IMS), as well as its Converged Packet Core solution, capable of scaling both up and down, and providing a very solid and reliable infrastructure across all the mobile generations. M