RAN

And the picture remains gloomy into 2024.

New figures from Dell'Oro show a 5% year-on-year slide in the around US$100 billion market, a worse performance than it had expected, driven amongst other things by a slowdown in 5G and home broadband investments, as well as macroeconomic trends and the remains of a post-Covid hangover.

Nokia announced that it has completed a joint lab trial of Cloud RAN with In-Line acceleration with partners Arm and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) at Nokia’s Open Cloud RAN Innovation Center in Dallas, Texas.

In London on the 14th of September, The Right Honourable Sir John Whittingdale, Minister for Data and Digital Infrastructure announced the 19 successful projects in the Open Networks Ecosystem (ONE) competition - a part of the government’s £250 million Open Networks R&D Fund delivering on the 5G Telecoms Supply Chain Diversificatio

• Government announces £88 million investment in innovative open 5G connectivity solutions across the UK

   

As more UK local authority areas are awarded Gigabit infrastructure contracts, we pose the challenge - what's next?

NTIA/ITS, in collaboration with U.S. Department of Defense FutureG & 5G Office, is pleased to announce the (RAN) Intelligent Controller (RIC) Application (App) Forum, an event designed to showcase the current state of the open RAN RIC App market.

Organised by the Open RAN Global Forum, this event the fifth in the series seeks to discuss the progress of Open RAN and the crucial role of the RIC. It will examine the continually evolving ecosystem of players from hardware and software players, right down to the silicon level.