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Samsung Powers UK’s Largest Open RAN Rollout with Vodafone
Samsung announced that it’s supporting large-scale deployment of Vodafone Open RAN across 2,500 mobile sites in Wales and the South-West of the UK. Starting in Devon, Vodafone UK started its Open RAN deployment using vRAN (virtualized RAN) software and Open RAN radio solutions from Samsung.
The company is providing its vRAN software supporting Multi-RAT across 4G and 5G and its O-RAN-compliant radios in the low- and mid-bands for this installation. Samsung has fully integrated its 64T64R Massive MIMO radios into Open RAN, demonstrating its capability to handle integration.
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To be noted, this deployment is the largest Open RAN rollout in the UK. It’s the latest milestone in the expanded collaboration between Vodafone, Samsung, and several other partners, since the U.K.’s first 5G Open RAN site in Bath in January of 2022.
Using Samsung’s vRAN solutions, Vodafone, Samsung, and other partners have proven the capability of Open RAN in Vodafone UK’s commercial network, exceeding the performance of legacy hardware-based RAN in urban locations. Test results exceeded the targeted KPIs, including 4G and 5G downlink and uplink throughput.