NTT DOCOMO has partnered with with 12 companies, namely Dell Technologies Japan, Fujitsu, Intel, Mavenir, NEC, NTT DATA, NVIDIA, Qualcomm Technologies, Red Hat, VMware, Wind River and Xilinx to create the '5G Open RAN Ecosystem'.
O-RAN ALLIANCE, which NTT DOCOMO has led since its launch, has developed specifications and promoted products that allow operators to more freely combine disaggregated base station equipment. On the other hand, in order to bring out performance with products from different vendors, there are issues that are only found at interoperability testing which operators actually introducing open RAN have to deal with.
NTT DOCOMO said it will start discussions with the 12 companies on accelerating open RAN introduction to operators. Specifically, NTT DOCOMO’s target is to package best-of-breed RAN and to introduce, operate and manage them based on demands from operators considering open RAN introduction. By leveraging its years of activities in driving open network and know-how (which realized the world’s first open RAN for 5G using O-RAN), NTT DOCOMO is committed to maximize companies’ strengths in furtherance of the 5G Open RAN Ecosystem, and providing high-quality and flexible networks.
