Written by Robert Clark for LightReading.com
The Japanese telco is pitching open RAN wares to other operators - (Image Source: NTT Docomo)
NTT Docomo says it will have a competitive open RAN (O-RAN) solution on the market by the end of the year.
The Japanese telco is working with a dozen vendors to develop a verified multi-vendor O-RAN solution that it hopes will ease many of the headaches telcos have faced in deploying the new architecture.
It aims to carve out a role for itself as a bridge between vendors and operators, earlier this year announcing its new Orex (Open RAN Ecosystem Experience) brand that will carry out testing and verification of O-RAN gear.
Sadayuki Abeta, head of Open RAN solutions for Docomo, says the company is leveraging its pioneering experience in LTE when it led the specification of some key interfaces that then allowed it to run a multi-vendor 4G network.
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