Mavenir ties up with GDT to deliver OpenRAN solutions and services

Mavenir announced a collaboration partnership to deliver OpenRAN solutions in the United States.

As data demands rise, radio access networks (RAN) must evolve with it. Existing telecommunications network infrastructure will require significant upgrades to keep up. Unlike traditional RAN, OpenRAN decouples hardware and software and focuses on developing vendor-neutral hardware and software-defined technology based on open interfaces and community-developed standards, giving operators more flexibility as they deploy and upgrade their network.

As the industry continues to move towards open and interoperable RAN standards that define open interfaces between the network elements Mavenir’s deep experience in OpenRAN technology solutions and GDT’s worldwide footprint and expertise in architecting and deploying networks for the industry’s largest telecommunications and internet service providers together will provide end-to-end solutions and services to customers.

"GDT is excited to partner with Mavenir in designing and deploying turnkey solutions to support service providers adopting the flexibility and innovation capable from implementing an OpenRAN, open standards-based infrastructure," said Tom Ducatelli, GDT Executive Vice President of Sales & Marketing.

Joint capabilities will include:

Comprehensive solution planning and design

Efficient supply chain and pre-staging capability

Turnkey pre-shipment staging services

Well established warehousing, forward and reverse logistics

Nationwide solution deployment, integration and testing

Cost effective drive testing and RF optimization

End-to-end migration scenario planning, testing and execution

Expert KPI tuning, performance monitoring, field services and lifecycle support

"We are very pleased to deliver an OpenRAN end-to-end service and support experience to our customers. Our joint offer can cover the entire market and all the capabilities needed to give our customers a simplified path to OpenRAN deployment," said Ramnik Kamo, Mavenir Executive Vice President of Worldwide Operations and Chief Information Officer.

As a founding member of Open RAN Policy Coalition and elected board member, one of the first members of the O-RAN Alliance and part of the industry association The Telecom Infra Project (TIP), Mavenir has been a pioneer of OpenRAN.