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Samsung, Orange Collaborate to Accelerate Development of Open RAN Solutions

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Samsung Electronics this week announced the company is one of the first global vendors to participate in the opening of Orange’s Open RAN Integration Center in Paris, France. 

In the center, the two companies will collaborate to disaggregate the hardware and software elements of traditional RAN. Samsung’s virtualized RAN (vRAN), which has been proven in the field through commercial deployment with global tier one operators, including the U.S., will be used.

As one of the world’s leading telecommunications operators, Orange provides mobile services to 222 million users in 26 countries including Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. The group plans to deploy O-RAN Alliance-compliant base stations starting with indoor and rural configurations and expand to new deployments in the coming years.

Samsung’s vRAN solutions can help ensure more network flexibility, greater scalability, and resource efficiency for network operation by replacing dedicated baseband hardware with software elements. Additionally, Samsung’s vRAN supports both low and mid-band spectrums, as well as indoor and outdoor solutions. Samsung is the only major network vendor that has conducted vRAN commercial deployments with tier one operators in North America, Europe and Asia.

By opening its Open RAN Integration Center in Châtillon, near Paris, Orange will enable the testing and deployment of networks capable of operating with innovative technologies, which will serve as the backbone of the operator’s future networks. At the center, Samsung and Orange will conduct trials to verify capabilities and performance of Samsung’s vRAN, radio and Massive MIMO radio.

Said Arnaud Vamparys, SVP of RAN and Microwaves at Orange
With our European peers, we want to accelerate the development of Open RAN solutions that meet our needs. After the publication of common specifications, Orange’s Open RAN Integration Center will support the development and tuning of solutions from a broad variety of actors.

Woojune Kim, EVP, Head of Global Sales & Marketing, Networks Business at Samsung Electronics
Through this collaboration, we look forward to taking networks to new heights in the European market, enabling operators to offer more immersive mobile services to their users.

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