Accelleran at Sonic Labs event
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.
Unleashing the Power of AI in Telecoms Event
Accelleran is excited to announce its participation in the upcoming UKTIN AI Telecom Conference on February 1st, 2024, at IET Savoy Place, London. This event, centred around the transformative role of Artificial Intelligence in telecoms, will be held on February 1st, 2024.
Accelleran will be exhibiting at this event and also joining key panel discussions.
Unique offshore wind ‘living lab’ in Grimsby is switched on to launch new digital future
Today marks an exciting moment as the 5G PORTAL in Grimsby springs to life. The 5G ‘living lab’ not only symbolises the digital strides in offshore wind but also accentuates the sustainable future we’re driving towards, with the integration of high-speed communications. With fifteen 5G radio transmitters strategically positioned across five sites, including four wind turbines, we’re merging green energy with next-gen technology.
Spanning the port of Grimsby and the Lynn and Inner Dowsing wind farm, the 5G PORTAL is set to usher in cutting-edge solutions, reinforcing the UK’s stature as a forerunner in the global offshore wind sector.
Accelleran and Partners Spearhead Innovation in Autonomous Transport Systems at BMW Group Factory
As part of a three-year research project between 2019 and 2022, m3connect explored the application possibilities of an intelligent factory in the logistics domain in collaboration with three Bavarian partner companies and supported by the Bavarian State Ministry of Economic Affairs, Regional Development, and Energy. Under the project name “Autonomous and Connected Logistics,” autonomous transport systems and mobile devices were tested under real conditions in a 5G campus network at the BMW Group Dingolfing plant.
m3connect conducted this subproject in collaboration with partners Accelleran, a manufacturer of RAN software, and Benetel, a provider of RAN hardware.
Igniting Innovation in the Open RAN Ecosystem: Accelleran’s Pioneering Journey with Digital Catapult and Vodafone
Our journey in the realm of Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) has been marked by constant innovation, collaboration, and technological advancement. Recently, we have taken significant strides forward through our collaboration with Digital Catapult and Vodafone, bringing about a unique opportunity for driving progress in the Open RAN field.
During the event, our CSO, Arnaud Polster, joined a panel discussion shedding light on the innovation potential of AI/ML in Open RAN. He emphasised the significance of RIC use cases for ecosystem readiness and highlighted the critical role of Open RAN in fostering supply chain diversification and enhancing network energy efficiency.
Node-H and Accelleran show 5G SA O-RAN interoperability in German industrial trials
Node-H and Accelleran are supporting 5G SA trials with leading Germany companies in which Accelleran’s RIC and CU work alongside Node-H’s DU/RU to create low-cost but sophisticated Campus Networks.
Node-H and Accelleran have worked together to integrate their 5G SA technology to seamlessly support a 5G SA solution which combines the RIC and CU from Accelleran and the DU and RU from Node-H, integrated on the technology of its hardware partners, Askey and T&W. This provides mobile operators and system integrators an O-RAN compliant solution in a simple-to-deploy form and as low-cost solution. It also provides an upgrade path to support a range of indoor and outdoor products supporting different powers and bands, all based around the same low-cost hardware platform, as well as a roadmap to Rel-16 and Rel-17 as the platforms evolve.
O-RAN ALLIANCE Advances Testing and Integration with Successful O-RAN Global PlugFest Fall 2022
The O-RAN Global PlugFest Fall 2022 was successfully completed in 6 venues across Asia, Europe, and North America, with 106 participating companies.
O-RAN ALLIANCE global PlugFests represent a major platform enabling efficient progress of the ORAN ecosystem through well-organized testing and integration. O-RAN Global PlugFest Fall 2022 is the second O-RAN PlugFest this year. In combination with the Spring PlugFest, the 2022 O-RAN Global PlugFests span across 9 venues with 156 participants, of which many participated at more than one venue.
Digital Catapult onboards a further nine companies, including Accelleran, from across the globe to trial Open RAN in the UK
Digital Catapult, working in partnership with Ofcom, has given nine companies the opportunity to accelerate the development of their Open RAN products, through becoming part of the next phase of its SONIC (SmartRAN Open Network Interoperability Centre) Labs programme funded by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS).
Pro Audio Leader, Sennheiser teams up with 5G Network Innovators, Accelleran, Cumucore and EURECOM
5G network innovators Accelleran, Cumucore, EURECOM and pro audio leader, Sennheiser are pleased to announce for the media and communications industries, demonstrating a latency optimized state-of-the-art private 5G network using Open RAN and Cloud Native technology with fully virtualized Core.
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