Red Hat boasts its Telco credentials
ONF claims Open RAN automation first
Virtual and Open RAN developments from VMware and multiple telco cloud-oriented announcements from Red Hat lead today’s news charge.
VMware has launched Telco Cloud Platform RAN, an extension of the vendor’s existing Telco Cloud Platform designed to help network operators virtualize their radio access network elements and implement an Open RAN architecture. It helps operators virtualize RAN functions on a platform specifically optimized for the radio access network and with support for the Intel FlexRAN software reference architecture, according to VMware. The platform has been developed as a result of VMware’s experience in helping