Strange as it might seem, Huawei’s international tribulations may bear some responsibility for the growing interest in a more open radio access network (RAN). As security hysteria drives countries to excommunicate the once-indomitable Chinese company, telecom operators are left with fewer alternatives than ever before. Their dependence on a shrinking number of industry titans has…
So, after around six months of engineering, Belihomji and his team developed a completely cloud-based mobile offering — one that didn’t require any hardware elements, and one that was more nimble and flexible that the existing model. “Right after the handoff from the cell tower, from there on, everything that you see, which is the…
Rakuten will soon become the first new mobile network operator (MNO) to launch in Japan in over a decade. Rakuten Mobile Network CTO Tareq Amin explains for the first time the revolutionary approach that his team is taking to build Japan’s fourth major network. “The journey that we are embarking on in Japan will enable…
Around the same time as the xRAN’s announcement, Cisco unveiled plans to form a multivendor ecosystem designed to address issues and accelerate the viability and adoption of Open vRAN solutions, with initial participants including Altiostar, Aricent, Intel, Mavenir, Phazr, Red Hat and Tech Mahindra. Not satisfied with existing efforts, Mavenir in October announced its Open…
The Israeli mobile carrier has selected US company Mavenir to upgrade its core mobile telephone network. Partner chose Mavenir’s technological solutions for upgrading its network core and adding new capabilities, expanding existing voice services such as VoLTE (voice calls on a 4G network) and WiFi calling, and installing additional technologies in its data core for…
For a company that was barely known a few years ago, Mavenir has emerged as one of the more disruptive vendors in the wireless space, namely in taking on big players in the RAN market while continuing to play in a number of areas. It’s not a newbie by any means. The company’s history goes back…
Westell Technologies is currently working with U.K. firm ip.access on the development of a small cell product for enterprise that would use LTE in the Citizens Broadband Radio Service spectrum
All that said, last month at the Mavenir analyst event I saw a use case for RCS that is both persuasive and valuable… to enterprises. At the event, Mavenir made clear its belief that RCS wouldn’t replace any hugely popular consumer messaging services. This is understandable. Consumer messaging is generally driven by group and small-group behavior. Members of groups…
‘Mavenir has tackled the solutions provider challenge by launching its Open RAN Ecosystem. The ecosystem pulls together an end-to-end solution using Mavenir’s own radio and core assets along with those of its partners. This broadens the network options Mavenir and its partners can offer. Mavenir has also taken on the responsibility of network integrator.’
There is no doubt that vRAN fronthaul; efficient power technologies; artificial intelligence and machine learning; end-to-end network slicing; solution integration; and edge networking are all critically important telecoms technologies. And there is no doubt they can all benefit from the TIP treatment. What is less certain is whether TIP can focus on all of these simultaneously and show…
