Airspan Networks: Airspan to Debut 5G Innovation Lab in the UK for Partners and Customers
Innovation Lab will lead Airspan s efforts to expand collaboration on, and accelerate adoption of, Open RAN technology and its ecosystem
Airspan Networks, which provides groundbreaking, disruptive software and hardware for 5G network solutions, today announced plans to open a 5G Innovation Lab this month at its Slough, UK offices outside of London, in order to continue to lead innovation, promote collaboration with technology partners and customers, and to accelerate the adoption of Open RAN technology and its ecosystem.
The investment is part of Airspan s ongoing initiative to invest in R&D and innovative and disruptive hardware and software. Airspan intends for the lab to serve multiple purposes: as a showcase and demonstration facility for partners, customers and government institutions, to focus on the development of Open RAN software, 5G sub 6 GHz and mmWave indoor and outdoor equipment
Cites extremely nascent OpenRAN as country s great hope
Matthew Hughes Tue 27 Apr 2021 // 18:49 UTC Share
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Smaller carriers and networks are the weakest link in America’s telecommunications supply chain, FCC Commissioner Geoffrey Starks claimed while speaking at a supply chain integrity workshop.
“I’ve spoken to many rural wireless carriers about how they came to purchase Huawei and ZTE equipment in the first place. While they did so legally and in good faith, concerns about this equipment aren’t exactly new,” he said, noting a nearly decade-old bipartisan report from the House Intelligence Committee that urged carriers to avoid procuring kit from the two Chinese vendors.
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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.
Finding Huawei out of this mess
Matthew Hughes Wed 21 Apr 2021 // 11:15 UTC Share
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Ofcom should take a more active role in ensuring the UK s telecommunications providers do not become over-reliant on products from a small number of suppliers.
Or so claims a a new report [PDF] from the Telecoms Diversification Taskforce (TDT), which has urged Government to instruct the British comms watchdog to treat diversification as a strategic priority.
Although the Ofcom has traditionally governed the telecoms sector with respect to pricing, competition, and spectrum access, it has historically been less concerned with the underlying hardware used by providers. That may change, if the TDT is listened to.