Bell takes a punt on Cohere’s Open RAN tech

Canadian incumbent Bell Canada has become the latest telco to invest in budding Open RAN software supplier Cohere Technologies.
Cohere is working on two product offerings. Its Universal Spectrum Multiplier (USM) software claims to offer a 2x improvement in spectral efficiency and capacity. It can be integrated in the RAN, distributed unit (DU), centralised unit (CU), or as an xApp in the RAN intelligent controller (RIC) within a telco cloud. Cohere says USM can work on both 4G and 5G networks.
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