OpenRAN | vRAN | FlexRAN

The RAN market has traditionally been dominated by a few players that provided the whole solution stack, in essence not being interoperable with other solutions. This inherently forced lock-in to these traditional providers for the whole solution end to end. The Telco and RAN market requires open interoperability standards for new vendors to flourish. That is why open standards have grown steadily in the RAN space, with investments from both the traditional providers as well as Infrastructure players such as Intel and others. Concepts such as OpenRAN, vRAN and FlexRAN have become more common place, especially with adoption from service providers, due to the interoperability and reduced footprint that it fosters.

Using a select few partners, Nearby Computing offers OpenRAN solutions that are highly flexible and with a highly scalable architecture that allows mobile operators to deploy RAN and edge infrastructure using virtualized and decentralized components. These solutions cover all the implementations of RAN, from disaggregated RAN functionality built using open interface specifications between elements (OpenRAN) to an implementation of the RAN in a more open and flexible architecture which virtualizes network functions in software platforms based on general purpose processors (vRAN).These Open and Containerised RAN Software solutions support an economically viable alternative to the traditional mobile telecom approach. With the unique software architecture offered by our Open RAN partner and together with the end-to-end orchestration capabilities of the NearbyOne, we can unlock the true potential of software-defined networks and network virtualisation to better serve Private, Public and Neutral Host networks.

Nearby Computing can now proudly enable mobile operators to choose which vendors to deploy in their network while providing more options to scale-out RAN resources where they are needed and in precisely the right amounts. Some of the OpenRAN benefits include more market competition and customer choice, lower equipment costs, and improved network performance. With OpenRAN in use, it naturally expands the ecosystem, and with more vendors providing the building blocks, there is more innovation and more options for the Operators. Our vision for a multi-provider RAN solution that allows for differentiation between the hardware components as well as the various software components with open and virtualized interfaces, allowing software to be hosted that manages networks in the cloud is now a reality.

R An open ecosystem approach with a diversified and trusted supply chain.

R Open RAN architecture to increase the flexibility of deployment scenarios and simplified operations.

R SI capabilities to orchestrate and reduce integration complexity with multi-vendor components.

customer benefits