{"id":4486,"date":"2021-06-23T10:18:28","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T10:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.5gworldpro.com\/?p=4486"},"modified":"2023-02-01T08:59:41","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T08:59:41","slug":"netcracker-new-ric-player-expanding-open-ran-ecosystem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.5gworldpro.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/23\/netcracker-new-ric-player-expanding-open-ran-ecosystem\/","title":{"rendered":"Netcracker : New RIC Player expanding Open Ran ecosystem"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year In February 2020, NTT DoCoMo<\/a> announced agreements related to 5G<\/a> Open<\/span>\u00a0up\u00a0Ran<\/a> with Dell<\/a> Technologies<\/a> Japan<\/a>, Fujitsu, Intel, Mavenir<\/a>, NEC, NTT Data, Nvidia, Qualcomm<\/a> Technologies, Red Hat, VMware, Wind River and<\/span>\u00a0also\u00a0Xilinx. The broad aim here is “to<\/span>\u00a0internationally speed up” the advancement and deployment of open RANs.<\/p>\n

In June 2021, DoCoMo seems to have gone a step forward as NEC company has just announced that it is working with the Japanese telco on the joint<\/span>\u00a0advancement\u00a0of a RAN Intelligent Controller<\/span>\u00a0(RIC)– Which is the main part of an open and virtualized RAN network<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to NEC, the two companies would like to use the RIC in order\u00a0to reduce RAN operational costs,<\/span>\u00a0boost performance, as well as reduce power<\/a> consumption. NEC additionally highlighted the use of AI<\/a> and ML to allow much more sophisticated and also reliable control of networks, allowing them to\u00a0automatically and autonomously optimize radio<\/a> resources.<\/p>\n

It has been confirmed\u00a0that the RIC will be based on technology from NEC subsidiary<\/span>\u00a0Netcracker.\u00a0Netcracker will provide\u00a0an open RAN<\/a> domain orchestration<\/span>\u00a0option\u00a0that is aligned with the O-RAN Alliance<\/a><\/span>\u00a0SMO, including RIC performance.<\/p>\n

Other RIC cooperations are also available: Nokia<\/a> has announced public RIC<\/span>\u00a0tests with AT&T and also China<\/a> Mobile<\/a>,\u00a0 as well as VMware that has formerly stated it is dealing with Deutsche Telekom on\u00a0 RIC Domain.<\/p>\n

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