Mavenir lands VMO2 Open RAN deal

UK operator group Virgin Media O2 has added network software specialist Mavenir to its roster of Open RAN suppliers.
The agreement, announced on Monday, will see Mavenir’s open virtualised radio access network (vRAN) solution deployed at sites throughout the operator’s footprint. Fully cloud-native, it enables the distributed unit (DU) and centralised unit (CU) to run as containerised network functions on commercial off the shelf (COTS) hardware.
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