Being open is a good thing. Open for business. Open to new ideas. Open about what your products can and can’t do. We want to work with people who are open because it often leads to new discoveries and more fruitful partnerships.
We’re committed to being open at Dell Technologies, and nowhere is that more evident than in the Open RAN domain. We believe Open RAN has the potential to revitalize the radio access network (RAN) with new solutions, new revenue opportunities and new cost efficiencies. And we’re making that a reality with new products developed by Dell Technologies and our vast ecosystem of RAN partners. This ecosystem will help drive down RAN costs, deliver higher performance and allow communication service providers (CSPs) to build best-of-breed systems that leverage legacy investments without being locked into any single vendor’s technology.
A great example of this openness and the ecosystem we are building is our progress on Layer 1 acceleration. In February 2022, we announced the Dell Open RAN Accelerator Card, an in-line Layer 1 accelerator card we developed in partnership with Marvell Technologies. In October 2022, we announced our collaboration with Fujitsu and the integration of Fujitsu radio units (RUs) with our accelerator card. At Mobile World Congress 2023, we announced new collaborations with RAN leaders, including:
The latest ecosystem of partners gives our communication service providers (CSPs) extensive choice and flexibility to put together the solution they require based on performance, power consumption and costs.