According to Mavenir, all German MNOs have committed to adopting Open RAN
Mavenir announced that it has expanded its European capabilities with the establishment of an Open RAN Center of Excellence in Germany. The company said that the center, located in Bonn, will support European Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) with Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) engineering, planning, design, system integration and deployment.
This latest Center of Excellence further extends access to Mavenir’s Open RAN expertise across Europe and complements existing R&D design centers of excellence in Sweden, the Czech Republic, and the United Kingdom, “commented Puneet Sethi, senior VP and general manager of RAN business at Mavenir.
Mavenir chose Germany as the center’s location partially due to the country’s strong support of and interest in Open RAN technologies. All German MNOs have committed to adopting Open RAN, Mavenir claimed in a press release. Further, Germany’s Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure has announced € 300 million ($ 344 million) in funding to develop and test Open RAN technology.
In 2019, Mavenir released its fully virtualized 4G / 5G OpenRAN solution and earlier this year, launched a comprehensive OpenBeam portfolio of O-RAN compliant radio products, which provide MNOs with Open RAN solutions spanning micro, macro, millimeter wave (mmWave) and massive. MIMO (mMIMO) use cases.
“Operators need alternatives to the traditional vendors, particularly in countries with restrictions,” said Pardeep Kohli, president and CEO of the company. , and in doing so, helping to achieve the new, innovative applications that 5G promises enable.
