Collaboration implies common ground—that is, shared ideas or interests. In the past, collaboration also implied a shared physical space where people and their ideas could come together. In today’s hyperconnected world, however, collaboration can now take place across continents. And when you open the entire world to the possibility of collaboration, the world of what’s possible becomes exponentially larger.
Which brings us to some very big news: the collaboration taking place between NTT DOCOMO and Dell Technologies around Open RAN (O-RAN) technology. O-RAN is one of those ideas that thrives on collaboration. By opening the radio access network (RAN) to open-source software, O-RAN also opens up the market to more vendors and more solutions. The challenge up until now hasn’t been finding willing collaborators. Rather, it’s been finding somewhere for all that collaboration and testing to take place so the industry can actually benefit from it. And that’s where OREX and OTEL come in.
OREX stands for Open RAN Ecosystem Experience and is the brainchild of Japan’s leading mobile services provider, NTT DOCOMO. With OREX, NTT DOCOMO is packaging its extensive experience in O-RAN technology to help other communications service providers (CSPs) around the world create and accelerate their own O-RAN solutions. If that mission sounds familiar, it should: Dell’s own Open Telecom Ecosystems Lab (OTEL) shares a similar goal. OTEL allows CSPs, software vendors and systems integrators to use our state-of-the-art testing environment from anywhere in the world through remote, secure, high-speed connectivity. Put two very experienced technology accelerators like OREX and OTEL together, and you get the future – faster.