Open vRAN

February 6, 2020

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Service Providers: Join Cisco at MWC 2020

It’s February again that means Mobile World Congress 2020 in Barcelona is just a few weeks away.  I know everyone at Cisco is looking forward to seeing all of you at what is arguably the biggest and most impactful technology event of the year (well, maybe tied with Cisco Live!).  We look forward to…

November 4, 2019

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Cisco Leads with 5G at Mobile World Congress 2019 Los Angeles

Cisco – 5G and IoT sponsor of the main event for Mobility in America The momentum for Cisco in 5G continues to grow as this week we continue to make the strong case the indeed, Cisco is the most important 5G technology vendor.  Cisco executives and subject matter experts shared their knowledge and e…

October 11, 2019

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Making 5G Possible – with Cisco

Do you know how you are going to maximize the profitability of your 5G investment? If not, while at MWC19 Los Angeles, Cisco would like to speak with you about building a 5G network that works for all your customers as well as for you. Cisco at Mobile World Congress 2019 – Los Angeles To ensure you…

Leading Lights Awards – Industry recognition for Rakuten’s 5G Reimagined Network

Congratulation to Rakuten Mobile, arguably one of the industry’s most innovative service providers, for winning not one, but two Leading Light Awards last night. Rakuten won for the “Most Innovative Telco Cloud Strategy by an operator” and “Most Innovative Automation Strategy by an operator”. These…

February 21, 2019

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The Open vRAN Wave is Building

The Open vRAN movement started with some smaller waves and the anticipation of a larger wave to form. It was driven by a belief that the fundamental way that mobile networks have been built for decades needed to evolve and improve. Legacy architectures, that were useful in the past, have outlived th…

October 11, 2018

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Cisco, Open VRAN Ecosystem and 5G RuralFirst at the TIP Summit in London

The Telecom Infra Project (TIP) is a collaborative telecom community. Launched in February 2016, TIP was started with the goal of accelerating the pace of innovation in the telecommunications industry.  This year Cisco is proud to be a Gold Sponsor at the upcoming TIP Summit – running on 16th…

September 12, 2018

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Open vRAN Ecosystem – Enabling a Better Mobile Architecture

We launched the Open vRAN Ecosystem in February of this year with a vision to accelerate the viability and adoption of open virtualized RAN (vRAN) solutions and ensure their extension into a broader network architecture. We’ve had a busy six months architecting and building solutions, executing oper…

Open vRAN Update: NETCONF/YANG Comes to 5G RAN!

One of the key principles of the Open vRAN ecosystem that Cisco and its ecosystem partners announced earlier this year, is to establish open, standard interfaces and management for vRAN. Recently the xRAN Forum has defined the use of IETF’s NETCONF/YANG standard for programmatically configuring and…

5G Now! Enabling Profitability for Service Providers

5G Now! Enabling Profitability for Service Providers As we engage with our customers and partners at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2018 in Barcelona, I cannot help but think of the major presence and disruptive technologies we have introduced with our 5G Now! announcement. From our Open vRAN to our te…