Türk Telekom, the leading-edge and first integrated telecommunications operator in Turkey, has been working for a long time on Open RAN technologies that will play an active role in 5G networks. With this vision, Türk Telekom is a member of TIP, a non-profit organization, promoting open technologies and a disaggregated ecosystem to facilitate and improve their adoption.
Türk Telekom’s pilot is designed to contribute to the work of Open RAN and Open Transport project groups within TIP. Mavenir’s award-winning Open vRAN solution, which is based on the world’s first fully containerized, virtualized Open RAN Split 7.2x architecture, gives operators increased business agility, network elasticity and flexibility. Mavenir is providing Türk Telekom with a complete end-to-end Open vRAN solution which will allow a single architecture to support the existing 4G network, as well as densify coverage for 5G. Processing will be aggregated in the central units (CUs) and distributed units (DUs) simplifying the cell sites and transforming the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). Concerning the overall architecture, main responsibilities of ComPro as System Integrator, include the timely delivery and installation of various O-RAN compliant components, whilst ensuring the smooth integration of multi-vendor solutions.”
The pilot will include 4G radio units (RUs), 4G small cells and 5G Massive MIMO RUs with embedded beamforming technologies that conform to the O-RAN Alliance fronthaul specifications. The pilot will test Open vRAN in the Türk Telekom Innovation Center and in the field on pilot sites.
“Open, virtualised and interoperable networks based on cloud-native software and technologies offer significant capital and operational cost reduction while accelerating network delivery for CSPs,” said Puneet Sethi, Senior Vice President for RAN at Mavenir. “The move to an Open vRAN is an industry leadership milestone for Türk Telekom, one which Mavenir, together with our System Integrator partner ComPro, is proud to be a part of. Türk Telekom is building a new generation network by picking and choosing vendors based on merit and feature innovation. Once Open vRAN is integrated to the network, Türk Telekom will be able to select best-in-class RAN products available from the vast O-RAN ecosystem.”
Commenting on the release, Türk Telekom’s CTO Yusuf Kıraç – “We are pleased to work with Mavenir, ComPro and TIP on this Open vRAN pilot. We see that disruptive technologies such as Open vRAN have enormous potential for the future sustainability of networks. We are proud to contribute to the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) and firmly believe that this and similar projects will play an important role in developing the O-RAN ecosystem and the networks of the future.”
“We are pleased to have the systems integrator role in ongoing Türk Telekom 4G/5G Open vRAN pilot with support of TIP. This is an ambitious enterprise led by Mavenir and formed by best-of-breed technology providers. Together, we are determined to deliver a higher maturity, game-changer Open vRAN solution, paving the way to significant OPEX/CAPEX savings for the first integrated telecommunications operator, Türk Telekom in Turkey,” said Hakan Yildiz, Vice President, ComPro Information Technologies.
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About Mavenir:
Mavenir is building the future of networks and pioneering advanced technology, focusing on the vision of a single, software-based automated network that runs on any cloud. As the industry's only end-to-end, cloud-native network software provider, Mavenir is focused on transforming the way the world connects, accelerating software network transformation for 250+ Communications Service Providers in over 120 countries, which serve more than 50% of the world’s subscribers. www.mavenir.com
About Türk Telekom Group:
Türk Telekom, with over 180 years of history, is the first integrated telecommunication operator in Turkey. Having a wide service network and product range in the fields of individual and corporate services, Türk Telekom unified its mobile, internet, phone and TV products and services under the single “Türk Telekom” brand. “Turkey’s Multiplay Provider” Türk Telekom has 16.9 million fixed access lines, 14.3 million broadband, 2,9 million TV and 24 million mobile subscribers as of December 31, 2021. Türk Telekom Group Companies provide services in all 81 cities of Turkey with nearly 36 thousand employees with the vision of introducing new technologies to Turkey and accelerating Turkey’s transformation into an information society. www.turktelekom.com.tr
About ComPro:
ComPro envisions to contribute to the digital transformation in Turkey by rapidly implementing the innovations in IT since 1998. Being the official solution integrator for global companies and biggest partner of some in Turkey, we offer products, solutions and services from these global leading technology providers to our customers. Fastly adapting to the virtualization/cloudification revolution in telco space, ComPro is focused on providing innovative NFVI, xNF, BSS, 5G ORAN and 5G Private Networks solutions/components to CSP and big enterprises. www.compro.com.tr
