London, UK, March 29th 2023
On March 29th, an exceptional gathering of Open RAN vendors participated in a panel and networking session at Digital Catapult‘s Sonic Labs programme facility at Kings Cross. The Sonic Labs collaboration to date has involved 15 vendors and 36 O-RAN products, including Accelleran, which has conducted comprehensive end-to-end interoperability and performance scalability testing at the facility.
Arnaud Polster, Chief Sales Officer at Accelleran, as part of the panel, shared insights on Accelleran’s involvement in Sonic Labs, the evolving O-RAN market, and the present and future capabilities of the RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC). Arnaud was joined on the panel by: Lorcan Burke (he/him), Director, EMEA Service Provider and Edge, VMware, Stephen Patrick, Director, CableFree, and Rafal Sanecki, Head of Marketing, IS-Wireless.
The upcoming Sonic Labs activities will focus on further exploring the RIC and its potential in energy optimisation of the network.
Companies joining the next activity include Accelleran, Airspan Networks, Benetel, IS-Wireless, Phluido, Wistron NeWeb Corporation, and Radisys Corporation, with more vendors anticipated in the coming weeks.