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沃达丰，NTT Docomo携手协调SI，测试开放RAN
这些电信公司在周三的一份联合声明中表示，统一的测试方法将帮助供应商在与多个运营商合作时避免重复，同时确保该行业提供由行业组织3GPP和ORAN联盟定义的安全副设计产品。
两家电信公司周三在一份联合声明中表示，统一的测试方法将帮助供应商在与多家运营商合作时避免重复，同时确保安全行业提供由行业组织3GPP和ORAN联盟定义的安全副设计产品。
沃达丰和NTT Docomo表示:“双方将通过交换各自的专业知识和技术来实现合作。”他们补充说，他们的联合工作将避免与多家运营商进行昂贵的重复测试，尤其有利于小型供应商和初创公司。
此外，沃达丰和Docomo计划合作，通过提高RAN技术、集成流程、人工智能/机器学习和自动化技术的效率，降低运营商的总拥有成本(TCO)，以期发布白皮书。
沃达丰和Docomo的联合研发力量将为欧洲和亚洲更多希望建立开放式RAN网络的公司降低准入门槛。Open RAN将我们聚集在一起，跨越各大洲，推动网络设备供应商的多样化，并确保更大的系统集成，而不是分散行业，”沃达丰首席技术官Johan Wibergh说。
除了NTT Docomo，沃达丰周二还宣布与芬兰电信(Finnish)等多家业内公司建立合作关系诺基亚，韩国三星与芯片制造商Marvell和高通就Open RAN展开合作，并计划进行商业宣传5克明年将在德国试点使用开放式建筑。
高通和沃达丰扩大合作，为欧洲的Open RAN部署开发5G设备
高通技术公司和沃达丰正在开发由高通X100 5G RAN加速卡和高通QRU100 5G RAN平台支持的5G开放RAN基础设施解决方案。5G设备支持大规模MIMO，具有高容量密集城市场景所需的64T64R和32T32R功能。
沃达丰和高通扩大了合作范围，一旦在该电信公司的实验室完成验证测试，就将测试、开发和集成用于欧洲开放RAN部署的5G设备。
“我们期待结合沃达丰在开放RAN系统集成方面的研发和思想领导力，以及Docomo在日本部署多供应商5G开放RAN商业服务的经验。我们的合作将有助于加速开放RAN的广泛商业采用，并为5G及以后实现一个充满活力的RAN生态系统，”NTT Docomo首席技术官Naoki Tani表示。
两家公司还同意寻求远程连接他们的实验室能力，这将补充他们在英国(沃达丰，纽伯里)和日本(Docomo的共享开放实验室，横须贺)现有的Open RAN研发中心。
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The telecom companies in a joint statement on Wednesday said the uniform approach to tests will help vendors avoid repetition when working with multiple operators while ensuring that the industry<\/a> delivers secure by-design products as defined by the industry bodies \u2013 3GPP and the ORAN Alliance.
\u201cThe cooperation will be performed by exchanging the respective expertise and technologies between the parties,\u201d Vodafone and NTT Docomo said. They added that their joint work will particularly benefit smaller suppliers and startups by avoiding costly duplicate testing with multiple operators.
<\/div><\/div>Vodafone and NTT Docomo further aim to maximize the benefits of the Service Management Orchestrator - a component of the Open RAN Network Operation Support System - and the RAN Intelligent Controller platform (SMO\/RIC). They intend to identify the key features of SMO\/RIC, determine their likely evolution and define the underlying software architecture, the statement added.
In addition, Vodafone and Docomo plan to cooperate to lower the total cost of ownership (TCO) for operators by enhancing the efficiency of RAN technologies, integration processes, artificial intelligence\/machine learning, and automation techniques, with a view to publishing a whitepaper.
\"The collective R&D power of Vodafone and Docomo will lower the entry barrier for many more companies across Europe and Asia wishing to build Open RAN networks. Rather than fragmenting the industry, Open RAN is bringing us together, across continents, to drive diversification of network equipment vendors and ensure greater systems integration,\u201d said Johan Wibergh, Chief Technology Officer of Vodafone.
In addition to NTT Docomo, on Tuesday, Vodafone announced partnerships with several industry players such as Finnish Nokia<\/a>, South Korean Samsung<\/a>, and chipmakers Marvell and Qualcomm on Open RAN, and the plan to conduct a commercial 5G<\/a> pilot using the open architecture in Germany next year.
In addition, Vodafone and Docomo plan to cooperate to lower the total cost of ownership (TCO) for operators by enhancing the efficiency of RAN technologies, integration processes, artificial intelligence\/machine learning, and automation techniques, with a view to publishing a whitepaper.
\"The collective R&D power of Vodafone and Docomo will lower the entry barrier for many more companies across Europe and Asia wishing to build Open RAN networks. Rather than fragmenting the industry, Open RAN is bringing us together, across continents, to drive diversification of network equipment vendors and ensure greater systems integration,\u201d said Johan Wibergh, Chief Technology Officer of Vodafone.
In addition to NTT Docomo, on Tuesday, Vodafone announced partnerships with several industry players such as Finnish Nokia<\/a>, South Korean Samsung<\/a>, and chipmakers Marvell and Qualcomm on Open RAN, and the plan to conduct a commercial 5G<\/a> pilot using the open architecture in Germany next year.
<\/div><\/div>Vodafone and Nokia will jointly work on an Open RAN baseband solution. The British telco\u2019s partnerships with Samsung and Marvell will focus to speed up data processing and improve the performance of networks to be at par with traditional infrastructure.