Open vRAN

Today, World Wide Technology (WWT) announced a collaboration with Cisco, along with Altiostar, to develop an Open vRAN blueprint and validation lab and program for service provider networks.  I’d like to take a few minutes to explain why this agreement is significant for our service provider customers.

See what Service Providers can expect from Cisco's presence at MWC 2020 in Barcelona. Learn how you can grow revenue, save money, and mitigate risk. We will also highlight all of the demonstrations you can experience at our booth from Open vRAN to our newest innovations - Silicon One and Cisco 8000 Series.

Last week, Cisco Service Provider attended Mobile World Congress Los Angeles were our leaders shared their thoughts around the impact of 5G and our solutions experts showcased our latest innovations including Open vRAN and the Unified Domain Center.

At MWC19 Los Angeles, learn how Cisco can help you maximize the profitability of your 5G investment by building a 5G network that works for your customers and for you.

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.

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.

The Telecom Infra Project (TIP) is a collaborative telecom community. Cisco is proud to be a Gold Sponsor at this year's TIP Summit in London next week.

We’ve had a busy six months architecting and building solutions, executing operator demos and trials, helping to define open interfaces and management, building business models to compare costs of various solutions, partnering with the UK government to help address the digital divide with 5G, and much more. There’s more to come on many of those items. In this update we’ll focus primarily on our activities around this week’s MWC Americas show in Los Angeles.

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 managing its lower layer split RAN architecture.