Amdocs Joins Consortium Helping to Accelerate Open RAN Deployment in the UK and Globally
19 January 2022 - 12:00AM
Amdocs (NASDAQ: DOX), a leading provider of software and services
to communications and media companies, today announced that it is
part of a consortium that has secured UK Government funding in an
initiative designed to accelerate Open RAN deployment in the UK and
globally.
The “Accelerating RAN Intelligence in 5G” (ARI-5G) consortium is
one of several winning bids to receive funding from the UK’s
Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) through its
Future RAN (FRANC) competition.
Led by the Telecom Infra Project (TIP), ARI-5G will validate use
cases for open and disaggregated solutions with innovations in 5G
power consumption, energy efficiency, and spectrum management —
accelerating successful and scalable commercialization over an
initial 18-month period.
The consortium will implement, test and demonstrate a
standards-based RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) platform with
specific applications. The project will result in proven RAN
automation use cases that can be deployed in both third party and
open-source RICs, providing real-world validation in a 5G SA
(standalone) network.
Amdocs will leverage its RF planning, optimization and
Self-Organizing Networks (SON) use case experience to deploy and
demonstrate multiple analytics and optimization applications. The
other ARI-5G consortium members are BT, Accelleran, AttoCore, West
Midlands 5G and VIAVI Solutions.
“Over the next decade Open RAN will transform the economics of
mobile networks with real-time automation at its heart,” said
Anthony Goonetilleke, Group President of Technology and Head of
Strategy at Amdocs. “We’re looking forward to contributing our RAN
automation and systems integration expertise to this exciting
project.”
“We’re pleased to have Amdocs on board as part of the ARI-5G
consortium,” said Vishal Mathur, Global Head of Engagement, Telecom
Infra Project. “We look forward to them contributing their
expertise in RAN automation and RAN systems integration.”
UK Digital Infrastructure Minister Julia Lopez said: “Our mobile
networks play an increasingly crucial part in our lives and
businesses, which is why we're investing £36 million in
cutting-edge projects to ensure our networks are safe and secure
for decades to come. I'm pleased to see such an outstanding range
of innovators are now on board with FRANC as we push ahead to build
a more competitive and resilient telecoms supply chain.”
Supporting Resources
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Project (TIP) website
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About AmdocsAmdocs helps those who
build the future to make it amazing. With our market-leading
portfolio of software products and services, we unlock our
customers’ innovative potential, empowering them to provide
next-generation communication and media experiences for both the
individual end user and enterprise customers. Our 28,000 employees
around the globe are here to accelerate service providers’
migration to the cloud, enable them to differentiate in the 5G era,
and digitalize and automate their operations. Listed on the NASDAQ
Global Select Market, Amdocs had revenue of $4.3 billion in fiscal
2021. For more information, visit www.amdocs.com.
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2021.
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