AT&T Moves Toward ORAN Using Ericsson Cloud Technology
AT&T has started deploying Ericsson cloud radio access network technology on its network, the companies said Monday. AT&T announced in December a five-year contract with Ericsson worth as much as $14 billion for open RAN (see 2312050049). “The two companies…
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have completed a Cloud RAN call as a milestone in deploying Open RAN,” said a news release: “AT&T now has commercial traffic flowing on Cloud RAN sites, the first ones of which are located south of Dallas. … The configuration used for the Cloud RAN call has been deployed in the AT&T network, and third-party vendors will be able to use this configuration for Open RAN in the future.”