Mavenir is a business which has been growing steadily over the last few years, capitalizing on the virtualization buzz, though future prospects could ultimately be out of their control. One aspect of the business model for Mavenir is simple. It is somewhat reliant on the process of decoupling hardware from software, the emergence of standardised…
Intel recently announced it has collaborated on a new 5G infrastructure reference design that enables Communications Service Providers (CSPs) to quickly deploy new revenue-producing services. Utilizing pre-integrated and commercially available components from various partners, the Intel® 5G infrastructure reference design serves as a blueprint for customers to rapidly deploy a software-defined, cloud-enabled, agile 5G-ready network that supports…
Operators are facing a dilemma – How to remain profitable while cost-effectively meeting rapidly escalating network capacity demands. Nearly 80 percent of user data that transits an operator’s network is encrypted video that only benefits OTTs. It is in each operator’s best interest to architect the network to off-load this traffic at the nearest point…
All the major U.S. operators are exploring their virtualized RAN (vRAN) options. T-Mobile is exploring a vRAN architecture but added that the 5G network doesn’t have to be uniform and operators could have vRAN in some parts of the network and traditional RAN in other parts. John Baker, senior vice president of Mavenir, said that operators are going…
Mavenir estimates that U.S. mobile carriers can save $546 million over a five-year period by offloading traffic — mostly video — onto the Internet. A study commissioned by Mavenir shows these results after offload 32% of video traffic, for a carrier with 50 million subscribers. Research firm iGR estimates that 80 percent of the traffic on a network today…
Carriers can tap into significant cost savings by creating local breakouts that offload traffic through Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC). A study released today found that U.S. mobile carriers could reap savings of more than $546 million over a five-year period by employing white box routing to offload 32% of their video traffic. Mavenir, which commissioned the study that was…
The first XRAN specifications for a fully specified open interface between radio and central units will break down the three vendor “stranglehold” on the RAN, according to one would-be rival vendor. John Baker of Mavenir said that with all signaling between the Remote Radio and Baseband Unit now fully defined – “unlike previous specs” – the road was now…
The small office/home office represents significant untapped potential. Mobile network operators (MNOs) have a sizeable revenue opportunity in the high-growth UCaaS market. They’re exceptionally well-positioned to emerge victorious, and profitable, in the largest of all market segments. Eastern Management Group recently completed a multi-year study of the global hosted PBX market and published the research…
Virtualizing the RAN is getting a lot of attention from operators because it promises to lower operator capex and opex costs as well as make it possible for them to add new capabilities to the network more quickly. It’s likely that all that interest is behind the creation of three different groups —the xRAN Forum,…
In a move that will have some operators and smaller vendors rejoicing, the xRAN Forum announced the approval and public availability of the xRAN Fronthaul Specification Version 1.0, the first specification to come from the group since xRAN launched in October 2016. The spec is available for download on the forum’s website… …Mavenir Business Development SVP…
