Samsung Electronics and O2 Telefónica immediately introduced that the businesses have launched their first virtualized RAN (vRAN) and Open RAN business web site in Germany. It is the primary time that Samsung’s 5G vRAN resolution is being utilized in a business community in Germany. The web site is now working in Landsberg am Lech, Bavaria, offering high-performance and dependable 4G and 5G companies to clients. In the approaching months, the businesses will broaden the vRAN and Open RAN community to seven extra websites within the area, aiming to additional lengthen the Open RAN footprint.
This milestone builds on the businesses’ joint initiative, introduced in October 2023, the place they agreed to develop a roadmap for a number of checks of vRAN and Open RAN applied sciences. Following the intensive trials, O2 Telefónica and Samsung at the moment are progressing from lab to area with the launch of this primary business web site.
▲ O2 Telefónica and Samsung switched on their first vRAN and Open RAN business web site in Germany
“We are taking another big step in our Open RAN journey. Together with Samsung, we are utilizing the latest Open RAN technologies in our mobile network. On the way to the network of the future, we are integrating new network solutions to provide our customers with outstanding connectivity. Open RAN is a building block that can help us to automate our network, deploy new updates faster and use network components more flexibly,” mentioned Mallik Rao, Chief Technology & Information Officer of O2 Telefónica.
“Samsung is setting new requirements for excellence within the telecommunications trade with our modern vRAN and Open RAN capabilities. Celebrating Telefónica’s 100th anniversary, we’re proud to be the important thing accomplice for O2 Telefónica on their trailblazing journey to usher in a brand new period of connectivity in Germany,” mentioned Junehee Lee, Executive Vice President, Head of Global Sales & Marketing, Networks Business at Samsung Electronics.
Open RAN and vRAN: Bringing Greater Flexibility and Automation
O2 Telefónica is constructing an much more environment friendly and future-proof community leveraging trendy and superior RAN applied sciences, open interfaces and automation capabilities. Open RAN permits better flexibility within the cell community. Based on open interfaces, operators can mix community parts from totally different suppliers and combine them into their community.
Software-centric vRAN helps the adoption of cloud-native structure, permitting community operators to raised automate features, introduce new applied sciences and companies to their networks shortly and effectively. This is vital for accelerating community buildouts and adopting new 5G functions, together with use circumstances that require low response speeds, similar to digital and augmented actuality (VR/AR) or latency-critical functions for enterprises.
▲ O2 Telefónica is offering dependable cell connectivity to its clients, leveraging Samsung’s 4G and 5G vRAN and Open RAN options
Samsung’s Advanced and Proven Network Solutions
The corporations have efficiently switched on this primary business web site simply three months after the preliminary cargo of 4G and 5G options, leveraging Samsung’s experience and pre-validated ecosystem confirmed from large-scale business vRAN and Open RAN deployments throughout the globe.
For the preliminary deployments, Samsung’s providing consists of its market-leading 4G and 5G vRAN 3.zero resolution and O-RAN compliant radios supporting low- and mid-bands (700MHz, 800MHz, 1.8GHz 2.1GHz, 2.6GHz and three.6GHz), together with 64T64R Massive MIMO radios. Samsung’s superior vRAN 3.zero options enhanced capabilities for improved power effectivity, optimized efficiency and clever automation.
As the subsequent step, the businesses will introduce Samsung’s clever community automation options to manage life cycle administration — from deployment and operation to upkeep. This O-RAN compliant…
