Mavenir, a cloud-native network software company aims to bring in innovation and disruption in the networks space dominated by Ericsson, Nokia and Huawei, and is planning to spend a part of recent $500 million investment in fifth generation or 5G research and development (R&) activities.<\/p>\n
“We are enabling new players to enter the market traditionally controlled by three vendors, and bring innovation and disruption by widening the supply chain,” Pardeep Kohli, President & Chief Executive Officer, Mavenir told ETTelecom, adding that the merger of telecom and IT industry would completely change the landscape in the future.<\/p>\n
The company with inherent strengths in the network software domain, has more than 500 patents, and invested in OpenRAN development, and aims to bring more 5G-centric applications affordably, with public and private cloud virtualisation is one of its key focus areas. <\/p>\n
Open RAN or Open Radio Access Network is an intelligent Radio Access Network (RAN) integrated on general-purpose platforms with an open interface between software-defined functions.<\/p>\n
Early this year, Koch Investments Group invested $500 million in Mavenir as a part of its strategy to take equity stake in innovative and disruptive companies that operate in industries with tailwinds.<\/p>\n
Kohli said that the company plans to use the money ($500 million) to scale operations in line with customer footprints and portfolio expansion as well continue to invest in new areas through our R&D which has been their strength.<\/p>\n
“Relating it to 5G adoption, this investment is enabling us to shape our products for different verticals with a focus on automation, artificial intelligence (AI) and various operational delivery models that are going to benefit our customers worldwide,” the top executive added.<\/p>\n
London-based STL Partners estimates that the annual sales of OpenRAN active network elements including equipment and software would reach $12 billion, or 21% of all active RAN capex excluding passive infrastructure by 2026.<\/p>\n
OpenRAN or open architecture-based approach is seeing much momentum in the telecom sector particularly in developing economies and price-sensitive markets such as India with biggies such as Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel are aggressively propelling the initiative. <\/p>\n
The UK-based Vodafone group which operates in India as Vodafone Idea or Vi, in partnership with Mumbai-based Idea Cellular, is a part of O-RAN Alliance alongside AT&T, China Mobile, Deutsche Telekom, NTT DoCoMo and Orange, formed in 2018.<\/p>\n
“Traditional RAN with closed and proprietary interfaces are difficult to scale, and less efficient to automate. This leads to a diminishing supplier ecosystem, reduced price competition and slow innovation,” the top executive said.<\/p>\n
The OpenRAN major said that it has been taking available technologies to the radio market, and disaggregate and virtualise onto hyperscale cloud platforms for a comparatively faster time to market, and making OpenRAN a more inclusive ecosystem which has been a traditionally closed system.<\/p>\n
Kohli, however, expects limited 5G rollouts to start towards early 2022 in India. <\/p>\n
“5G is critical to India\u2019s digital transformation thrust as it will empower communication service providers (CSPs) to move beyond a subscriber-driven business model and re-invent themselves as digital service providers (DSPs) for driving innovation, safety and productivity across industries and enterprises to drive Industry 4.0 use cases,” the top executive added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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