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ORPC Executive Director Diane Rinaldo sat down with AT&T’s Chris Boyer in Barcelona to summarize the key Open RAN take aways from MWC. Chris and Diane were encouraged to see prominent business and policy discussions around Open-RAN incorporated into the show agenda as well as happening on the trade show floor. Highlights from their chat include:

• Unlike previous years, Open-RAN was a primary topic of this year’s Mobile World Congress, with keynote remarks, panel presentations and an obvious increase in the number of small companies getting into the Open-RAN space.

• Carriers are still encouraged about Open-RAN as a way to power 5G networks and beyond at a more cost-effective and innovative way.

• There were cool things on the trade show floor, like holograms and new approaches to delivering Artificial Intelligence (AI) experiences.

• That said… Diane is still confident that AI

Last night, Analog Devices, Inc. hosted an Open RAN Policy Coalition networking event at MWC Barcelona. The reception, also sponsored by AT&T, Fujitsu and Qualcomm, welcomed 100 attendees including ORPC members, policy experts, and leaders from across the telecoms industry. It was great to see so many friendly faces!

Today, ORPC Executive Director Diane Rinaldo is participating in a panel discussion as part of the Fujitsu Partner Program, “Network Trust – How To Securely Connect Cyber World To Physical World.” The discussion will focus on how network operators, cloud providers, application providers and policy & academic bodies can implement network security and ensure trusted solutions for a sustainable society, and will take place in Theatre 3, Hall 7 from 9:30-11am.

And this afternoon at the Telecom Infra Project Pavilion, Diane Rinaldo will interview Dr. Thomas Rondeau, PhD, … Read More

Join us at MWC on Wednesday, March 1 at the TIP Pavilion, where ORPC Executive Director Diane Rinaldo will interview Dr. Thomas Rondeau, PhD, Principal Director for FutureG & 5G, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering. They’ll be on the TIP stage from 2-2:30pm in Hall 5 Stand 5A40.

Today we’re highlighting more exciting announcements from ORPC members at MWC:

• DeepSig will be showcasing their widely deployed AI-driven RF Awareness product, OmniSIG® in the live MWC environment. Pairing machine learning and augmented reality, attendees will be able to see real-time RF signals being collected and classified in an immersive AR experience for the first time.

• Fujitsu announced the launch of a new 5G vRAN solution combining Fujitsu’s virtualized CU (vCU) and virtualized DU (vDU) with NVIDIA’s GPU technology. Fujitsu will start offering the new solution

The Open RAN Policy Coalition is excited to be back in Barcelona for MWC this week, February 27 – March 2.

ORPC Executive Director Diane Rinaldo will participate in a panel discussion on Wednesday as part of the Fujitsu Partner Program on Network Trust – How To Securely Connect Cyber World To Physical World. The discussion, moderated by Fujitsu’s Femi Adeyemi, will focus on how network operators, cloud providers, application providers and policy & academic bodies can implement network security and ensure trusted solutions for a sustainable society.

Many Coalition members will also be in attendance in Barcelona; below are just a few highlights of their exciting announcements and demonstrations:

• Cohere Technologies launched a new automated MU-MIMO beamforming solution for calibrating 4G and 5G networks using existing network and spectrum assets. The new Dynamic Network Alignment (DNA) solution applies the

The Open RAN Policy Coalition is excited to be in New York City for Open RAN North America on December 7-8. The conference will include attendees from across the RAN ecosystem, including service providers, enterprises, the public sector, vendors, industry associations and academia.

On December 8 at 2:30 p.m. our Coalition will host a policy workshop on “Overcoming Barriers to 5G Deployment through R&D, Test Beds and Interoperability”. This session will feature a panel discussion moderated by Executive Director Diane Rinaldo, that will address questions such as:

• What strategies can governments and the private sector undertake to promote supply chain security while avoiding mandates and maintaining technology neutrality?
• How can smart policies encourage the continued adoption of open and interoperable solutions in the RAN and emergence of diverse vendors in the telecoms ecosystem?
• What are the research needs

This week, ORPC will be at the 5G World / Network X event, taking place October 18-20 at RAI in Amsterdam. Network X is the new home of the long-running 5G World and Broadband World Forum, which sets out to provide a universal view of the state of telco in 2022. The agenda for this year’s event includes a number of talks on Open RAN, including a look at the inevitability of Open RAN, evolution of the RIC and vRAN today.

On October 20 at 1:15 p.m. John Baker, Open RAN Policy Coalition Board Member and Senior Vice President for Ecosystem Business Development at Mavenir, will interview Tom Rumbelow, Senior Policy Lead for Open RAN and R&D at the UK Government’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sports (DCMS). In their talk, they will cover “Open RAN Policy: Strategies for … Read More