Orange Spain and friends launch Open RAN 5G SA pilot

Orange Spain has led a band of merry firms including HPE, Casa Systems, Mavenir and Dell Technologies, to deploy Open RAN nodes connected to a cloud native 5G SA core network.
This pilot has proven ‘the expected benefits of Open RAN technology combined with the advantages of 5G SA networks’, says the release. Such benefits apparently include a less than one hour deployment of the network ‘thanks to the automation capabilities enabled by these new technologies.’
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