Qualcomm and Vodafone to Collaborate for Open-RAN Development

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Vodafone and Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a well-known silicon chipset maker for smartphones and other products, announced their collective plans to join forces in a bid to develop the technical blueprint required for more equipment suppliers so as to build 5G networks of the future vis ORAN (Open Radio Access Network) tech.

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This move aims to lower the barrier for entering this tech sector for any companies so as to drive diversification within network equipment vendors.

What Is The Aim For This Collaboration?

This collaboration, in particular, is built so that the reference designs can be designed to support established as well as emerging network infrastructure vendors to develop high-performance, modular, virtualised and interoperable 5G networks at scale, with the aim to make infra more competitive.

There is a greater benefit for customers too since Vodafone, and other telcos will be able to mix and match their hardware and software from multiple choices so as to extend their 5G networks better and get access to networks in geographical areas that require them the most.

As of today, where two or more suppliers are being used, each is deployed in a cluster and at points where they meet are often most challenging when it comes to overall performance.

The reference design will see a combination of Vodafone’s engineering expertise when it comes to building high capacity, large-scale networks with Qualcomm’s leadership in developing both high performance and low power ASIC solutions.