Leaders In OPEN RAN Key Takeaways
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Leaders In Open RAN features the latest Open RAN content as part of our Leaders In content series, powered by Light Reading and our content partners. The Leaders In Open RAN Key Takeaways provides exclusive Open RAN content highlighting the most innovative Open RAN solutions, case studies and research.
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Wind River Distributed Cloud for Open RAN
Qualcomm Accelerating the Transition Towards Virtualized and Open RAN
Dell Leaders In Open RAN
Amdocs Leads Way with O-RAN System Integration
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O-RAN System Integrator
Amdocs Open Ecosystem Accelerator for Open RAN provides a comprehensive set of open network solutions and services that minimizes risk during the transition to an Open RAN network. It is the culmination of a careful evaluation of product technologies and hardware & software vendors from the Telcom Infra Project (TIP) community, and the establishment of reseller agreements with various members.
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An industry veteran, Atul is responsible for driving the company’s vision to evolve its current RAN architecture from a closed vertically integrated network ecosystem to one that is open, next-generation and multi-vendor programmable. Atul has worked with the Open RAN ecosystem, helping companies maintain pace as network technology evolved from 2G to 3G, 4G and 5G.
Atul Khanna
Director of Open Access Networks and Services, Amdocs
Diana Blass is the co-founder of Kurrant Insights, where she serves as the video director and lead reporter. The Kurrant Insights Smart City Video Platform is the place to discover the latest IoT and smart city projects and trends through short documentaries and exclusive roundtables with city managers and industry leaders, Learn more at KurrantInsights.com.
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Owner, Video Journalist, Kurrant Insights
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With our market-leading portfolio of software products and services, we unlock our customers’ innovative potential, empowering them to provide next-generation communication and media experiences for both the individual end user and enterprise customers. Our 27,000 employees around the globe are here to accelerate service providers’ migration to the cloud, enable them to differentiate in the 5G era, and digitalize and automate their operations. Listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market, Amdocs had revenue of $4.2 billion in fiscal 2020.
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Amdocs Open Ecosystem Accelerator for Open RAN
Amdocs Offers Innovative Solutions to Accelerate O-RAN Deployments
Amdocs Open Ecosystem Accelerator for Open RAN includes:
System integration services for network operators who are in the process of deploying Open RAN hardware and software
Choice of best-of-breed partner products to ease process of buying, deploying and supporting new network technology, hardware and software
Lab services to test various Open RAN hardware and software combinations for specific use cases
Hardware and software vendor selection based on predefined criteria
Our end-to-end network solution and system integration services includes:
Test automation depending upon the network of specific geography
Large-scale deployment and managed services for MNOs to accelerate network innovation with Open RAN
End-to-end systems integrator partner for network operators provides services for third-party network components leading to network transformation. Also includes managed services and program management to ensure a successful transition and efficient operations.
Open RAN enables multivendor solutions, which is not an option with today’s current RAN offers that are propriety solutions and do not allow CSPs to pick and choose which vendors they want to deploy for specific RAN functionality. Open RAN changes this, so CSPs have choice and control over their entire RAN architecture. The openness creates challenges, primarily the integration and operations of multivendor solutions. To help CSPs overcome these complexities and challenges, Dell Technologies is working with an Open RAN ecosystem of partners to bring to market validated solutions that help to simplify the transition to Open RAN.
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Dell Technology provides the industry's broadest and most innovative technology and services portfolio for the data era. We are ready to serve Communication Service Providers (CSPs) worldwide as they transition to an Open RAN architecture and roll out new 5G services. We offer the expertise, telecom solutions, and services to help CSPs transform their operations, modernize their networks and enhance their services portfolio. Dell Technologies is working with leading RAN vendors to build a modern, open network ecosystem to build out the next generation of Open RAN solutions.
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Dell Technologies Open RAN Reference Architecture
Bringing Together the Open RAN Ecosystem
Dell Technologies is accelerating the transformation to Open RAN
Dell Technologies is accelerating the transformation to Open RAN technologies by bringing together the Open RAN ecosystem of partners to create end-to-end validated solutions. Communication service providers leverage these solutions to accelerate Open RAN deployments. Open RAN leverages standards-based interfaces to open up the current closed and proprietary RAN. This open framework allows new vendors to participate in the RAN and provides CSPs with new options for RAN technology that will accelerate innovation. Open RAN enables multivendor solutions, which is not an option with today’s current RAN offers that are propriety solutions and do not allow CSPs to pick and choose which vendors they want to deploy for specific RAN functionality. Open RAN changes this, so CSPs have choice and control over their entire RAN architecture. The openness creates challenges, primarily the integration and operations of multivendor solutions. To help CSPs overcome these complexities and challenges, Dell Technologies is working with an Open RAN ecosystem of partners to bring to market validated solutions that help to simplify the transition to Open RAN. Dell Technologies is also working with partners to mitigate the operational challenges of Open RAN by automating much of the deployment and management of geographically dispersed locations. The promise of Open RAN is opening up the RAN ecosystem through standards-based interfaces. Dell Technologies is at the forefront of working with the Open RAN ecosystem to create and validated solutions with industry-leading partners and technology.
Qualcomm is the world’s leading wireless technology innovator and the driving force behind the development, launch, and expansion of 5G. When we connected the phone to the internet, the mobile revolution was born. Today, our foundational technologies enable the mobile ecosystem and are found in every 3G, 4G and 5G smartphone. We bring the benefits of mobile to new industries, including automotive, the internet of things, and computing, and are leading the way to a world where everything and everyone can communicate and interact seamlessly.
Building High Performance 5G Networks with vRAN and O-RAN
Bringing together the Open RAN ecosystem
Qualcomm® X100 5G RAN Accelerator Card to Drive Global 5G vRAN Growth
Designed to Deliver High-Performance, Low Latency, and Power Efficiency for Ease of Deployment
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5G network virtualization and interoperability
5G network virtualization and interoperability: Why the time is now
In June 2021, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. expanded its 5G RAN Platforms portfolio with the addition of the Qualcomm® X100 5G RAN Accelerator Card, a high performance, low latency, and power efficient turnkey solution. The Qualcomm X100 5G RAN Accelerator Card is designed to enable operators and industry verticals to efficiently deploy 5G network coverage and capacity where it is needed most and will help accelerate the cellular ecosystem’s transition towards virtualized radio access networks.
The Qualcomm X100 5G RAN Accelerator Care is a PCIe inline accelerator card with concurrent Sub-6 GHz and mmWave baseband support which is designed to simplify 5G deployments by offering a turnkey solution for ease of deployment with O-RAN fronthaul and 5G NR layer 1 High (L1 High) processing. The PCIe card is designed to seamlessly plug into standard Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) servers to offload CPUs from latency-sensitive and compute-intensive 5G baseband functions such as demodulation, beamforming, channel coding, and Massive MIMO computation needed for high-capacity deployments. For use in public or private networks, this accelerator card aims to give carriers the ability to increase overall network capacity and fully realize the transformative potential of 5G.
The Qualcomm X100 5G RAN Accelerator Card is designed to allow established and emerging infrastructure vendors to simplify network deployments and fast track the commercialization of virtualized infrastructure at scale. Our inline accelerator card is designed to significantly enhance virtualized network operators’ deployments by increasing performance, reducing the number of CPUs and cores required, and reducing power consumption to allow for enhanced user experiences to consumers. For more information on Qualcomm® 5G RAN Platforms, please visit https://www.qualcomm.com/products/5g
Qualcomm is a trademark or registered trademark of Qualcomm Incorporated. Qualcomm 5G DU X100 Accelerator Card and Qualcomm 5G RAN Platforms are products of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries.
OpenRAN to Future-Proof Your Network
Analyzing the Economic Benefits of Wind River Studio
Wind River Studio is the first cloud-native platform for the design, development, operations, and servicing of mission-critical intelligent edge systems such as Open RAN. Studio is architected to deliver digital scale across the full lifecycle through a single pane of glass to accelerate transformative business outcomes.
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The core operator capabilities of Studio include:
Studio operator capabilities include an integrated cloud platform unifying infrastructure, orchestration, and analytics so operators can deploy and manage their intelligent 5G edge networks globally.
Cloud Platform: Starting with a distributed cloud, Studio provides a production-grade Kubernetes cloud platform for managing edge cloud infrastructure. Based on the open source StarlingX project, Studio compiles best-in-class open-source technology to deploy and manage distributed networks.
Conductor: Studio provides one platform to achieve complete end-to-end automation. Pick the applications you need from an app catalog, deploy them to a carrier-grade cloud platform, and orchestrate the resources needed for the applications simply, intuitively, and logically. Scale from a handful of nodes to thousands of nodes in a geographically dispersed distributed environment.
Analytics: Once a distributed cloud is deployed, Studio supports effective management of a distributed cloud system by consuming and processing data through machine-learning algorithms, to produce meaningful insights for decision-making. With full stack monitoring of the cloud infrastructure cluster and services, Studio collects, analyzes, and visualizes cloud behavioral data so you can keep your cloud up and optimized while reducing operational costs.
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Cloud Platform
Starting with a distributed cloud, Studio provides a production-grade Kubernetes cloud platform for managing edge cloud infrastructure. Based on the open source StarlingX project, Studio compiles best-in-class open-source technology to deploy and manage distributed networks.
Analytics
Once a distributed cloud is deployed, Studio supports effective management of a distributed cloud system by consuming and processing data through machine-learning algorithms, to produce meaningful insights for decision-making. With full stack monitoring of the cloud infrastructure cluster and services, Studio collects, analyzes, and visualizes cloud behavioral data so you can keep your cloud up and optimized while reducing operational costs.
Conductor
Studio provides one platform to achieve complete end-to-end automation. Pick the applications you need from an app catalog, deploy them to a carrier-grade cloud platform, and orchestrate the resources needed for the applications simply, intuitively, and logically. Scale from a handful of nodes to thousands of nodes in a geographically dispersed distributed environment.
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Sandro joined Dell Technologies in January 2021, leading the team responsible for the marketing activities for the telecommunications market. He brings more than 20 years of international experience in the telecoms industry, with most of these years spent at Nokia, where he has served in sales and marketing positions, working in Brazil, Argentina, Finland, and the U.S. His last role at Nokia was Head of Mobile Networks Marketing, a position in which he led a global team focused on developing the 5G market and promoting Nokia's solutions in this domain.
Sandro Tavares
Director, Telecom Systems Marketing, Dell Technologies
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Gerardo Giaretta currently serves as a senior director of product management at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. where he manages the 5G RAN infrastructure products portfolio. Gerardo holds nearly 20 years of experience in the wireless communications industry including 14-plus years with Qualcomm. Since joining in 2007, he has held a variety of roles in research, system design, standardization, and product management. Prior to joining Qualcomm, Gerardo was part of the standardization team for Telecom Italia.
Gerardo Giaretta
Senior Director, Product Management, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
As Chief Technology Officer at Wind River, Paul Miller is responsible for the company’s technology strategy. With nearly three decades of telecommunications and advanced technology leadership at both large companies and successful startups, he is currently focused on Wind River’s edge virtualization and AI solutions, including Wind River’s market-leading 5G Cloud offering based on StarlingX.
Paul Miller, Jr.
Chief Technology Officer
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