Thursday, June 25, 2020

シスコ、Telenorとの合弁事業、Open vRANトライアルを拡大

シスコはTelenorとの合弁事業を拡大し、ノルウェーの多国籍事業者の本社でオープンな仮想化無線アクセスネットワーク(vRAN)トライアルに着手しています。Cisco is expanding its joint venture with Telenor and embarking on an open virtualized radio access network (vRAN) trial at the Norwegian multinational operator’s headquarters. The joint venture Working Group Two (WG2), which was formed in 2017 to innovate on 5G, open vRAN, security, IoT, and enterprise use cases, also gained a new round of funding, but the companies declined to pin an amount to the latest investment or the total amount invested in the effort to date. WG2 has assembled a cloud-native mobile core offering for mobile network operators, mobile virtual network operators, and enterprises with open APIs and interoperability across networks, according to the companies’ joint announcement. The additional funding will be spent on expansion in Europe, North America, and Asia, and the development of new services for 5G, IoT, and private networks, the companies added. Cisco, through its financial partner Digital Alpha, and Telenor each own 47.5% of the joint venture and the remaining 5% is owned by WG2’s board and employees. WG2 sells its services directly and Cisco will now make those services available in its general price list and DevNet program. WG2 is also a technology partner in Amazon Web Services (AWS) partner network.  The WG2 services are built on Cisco products and the vendor owns those offerings, but they also adhere to open standards in their respective domains and will therefore integrate with other vendor’s platforms and equipment that follow those standards, a Cisco spokesperson explained. “Our partnership in WG2 builds towards a future where programmable networks are the key to creating value for 5G, IoT, and private networks. Ongoing developments in our agreement with Cisco continue to be forward leaning, addressing the most innovative and in-demand transformation topics in our industry,” Telenor CEO Sigve Brekke said in a prepared statement.  Telenor is a majority state-owned conglomerate that operates networks in nine Scandinavian and Asian countries.  “We continue to evolve WG2 to give operators the opportunity to reduce time to market and speed time to revenue with IoT and managed services for the enterprise, powered by the cloud and 5G,” Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins said in a statement.

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