O-RAN

Challenges for Open RAN in India

Vodafone Idea (Vi) has recently secured major contracts with traditional network vendors like Ericsson, and Samsung, joining industry giants Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel. This move raises questions about the future of Open RAN technology in India’s telecom industry. Open RAN, a vendor-neutral solution designed to reduce costs by enabling the sharing of hardware, software, […]

5G/6G

5G O-RAN Testing Lab Inaugurates at C-DOT Bengaluru

Minister of Communications, Shri Jyotiraditya M. Scindia, visited the Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT) campus in Bengaluru, where he inaugurated the 5G O-RAN testing lab and the “Tejas Centre of Excellence for Wireless Communications.” He also launched C-DOT’s indigenously designed 32T32R Massive MIMO radio, capable of delivering 1+ Gbps download speeds using the 5G […]

Informative

O-RAN to Offer Big Opportunity to India Startups

Open RAN (Radio Access Network) technology presents significant opportunities for Indian startups to develop an ecosystem that can be applied both domestically and globally. “Our industry is poised to become a global supplier for Open RAN technology. BSNL will also begin trials for Open RAN by next month,” said RK Upadhyay, CEO of the Center […]

Telecom Industry

Telcos Encounter Challenges in Adopting Open RAN, Highlighting Cost and Performance Concerns

This assumes significance in the sense that open RAN technology which was expected to reduce the cost for network deployment by about 30% for telcos, instead has shown an over two times increase in the cost compared to current traditional RAN solutions, executives said. RAN constitutes a major portion of the capital expenditure (CapEx) of […]

Informative

What Is Open RAN (O-RAN) ?

Open RAN (Radio Access Network) refers to a telecommunications technology paradigm that is characterized by the disaggregation of traditional RAN components. In a conventional RAN, which is a critical part of a mobile network, the radio unit (RU), distributed unit (DU), and centralized unit (CU) are tightly integrated and provided by a single vendor as […]