Having already expanded from software into hardware, Mavenir has just raised $155 million in funding with the goal of becoming a full system supplier, one that can source and integrate components as Ericsson or Nokia would do. It is also, supposedly, what the concept of open RAN is all about – assembling specialists from different fields to create a dream team of suppliers.īut there could be fewer involved in the future as former specialists branch out. It is the antithesis of what operators usually do when they put just one or two big kit vendors in charge of RAN rollout. For example, Dish brought in Samsung as recently as May, awarding the South Korean vendor a $1 billion contract for radios and software. Not all of these companies are working on Dish's radio access network (RAN), but many are, and the list keeps growing. Tech Mahindra now claims to be involved, too, although Mavenir says the Indian systems integrator has not been seen in action. The US telco's bog-roll-long roster of vendors now includes (deep intake of breath) AWS, Cisco, Dell, Fujitsu, Matrixx Software, Mavenir, Nokia, Rakuten, Samsung, Supermicro and VMware. Dish Network has so many suppliers that it would be easy to think some occasionally go missing like teenagers on a school trip.
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