Six vendors participated from July 2022 to December 2022
The participating vendors accelerated the development of their Open RAN products by integrating and testing their products in lab and indoor mobile network settings to accelerate their route to commercialisation.
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Benetel is leading the way in 5G Open RAN innovation. It meets today’s challenges of virtualisation and disaggregation by offering a range of leading-edge Open RAN compatible indoor and outdoor Radio Units. With a global market presence, Benetel is collaborating with key Open RAN ecosystem partners to ensure interoperability and exceptional end-to-end functionality.
Wireless Excellence designs and manufactures advanced Wireless Communication products including 4G & 5G Open RAN & V-RAN Radios, plus Microwave, Millimeter Wave, FSO and MIMO Radio backhaul. Based in Oxford, UK, CableFree has been deployed in over 80 countries since 1996. Customers include mobile operators, ISPs, government, industrial and corporate networks.
World leader in engineering and R&D services, Capgemini Engineering combines its broad industry knowledge and cutting-edge technologies in digital and software to support the convergence of the physical and digital worlds. Coupled with the capabilities of the rest of the Group, it helps clients to accelerate their journey towards Intelligent Industry.
Capgemini Engineering has 60,000 engineer and scientist team members in over 30 countries across sectors including aeronautics, space, defence, naval, automotive, rail, infrastructure & transportation, energy, utilities & chemicals, life sciences, communications, semiconductor & electronics, industrial & consumer, software & internet.
Effnet, a Swedish company, is an independent software products vendor for header compression technology and 5G solutions. For over 20 years, Effnet has been involved in the R&D of networking technologies and delivering high-quality and high-performance software solutions. They have delivered/licensed their solutions to companies across the world. Effnet 5G solutions are deployed in more than 20 projects across the USA, EU and UK as well as undergoing testing and PlugFests in various labs.
IS-Wireless develops and delivers 5G and 4G Radio Access Network solutions. The company is engaged in multiple deployments worldwide, including at hub4industry, where together with hubraum, the tech incubator of Deutsche Telekom, it delivered an industry-grade private 5G network in Poland for Industry 4.0. Other deployments include Digital Catapult and installations in Asia.
Phluido is a technology company based in San Diego, California. Since its foundation in 2014, Phluido has built intellectual property on software-defined radio access networks (RANs), and specialised in the software implementation of 4G L1 and 5G L1 for off-the-shelf x86 and Arm CPUs.
Seven vendors are participating on the programme between April 2024 and February 2025
Eight vendors participated in the programme between July 2023 and January 2024
Nine vendors participated from December 2022 to May 2023
Nine vendors participated from March to October 2023