Boost Mobile and Wind River power largest Open RAN deployment for 5G voice
Boost Mobile announced its collaboration with Wind River, a provider of intelligent system software, for the largest Open RAN deployment providing 5G voice to over 200 million Americans.
The transition to Wind River Studio Operator marks the telecom industry’s largest containers-as-a-service (CaaS) vendor changeover, reportedly from VMware amid Broadcom’s tough pricing strategy.
Boost Mobile enhances network performance and cost-effectiveness through component interchangeability and cloud-native solutions.
Wind River’s Studio Operator technology offers a cloud-native, Kubernetes-based architecture for managing distributed edge networks.
“With the world’s largest Open RAN deployment, Boost Mobile is helping to lead innovation in the market,” says Paul Miller, Chief Technology Officer at Wind River. “As a leader in the telecom landscape that powers the majority of 5G vRAN/Open RAN deployments across the globe, through our Studio Operator capabilities, Wind River delivers cloud-native solutions that enable the commercial deployment of next-generation network infrastructure for service providers, like Boost Mobile, worldwide.”
The collaboration enables rapid service deployment and automation in managing complex cloud infrastructures.
Boost Mobile provides flexible wireless plans emphasizing reliability and customer freedom.
Wind River has a long history of innovation in telecommunications, powering significant advancements in 5G and Open RAN technologies.
Wind River also recently teamed up with Rakuten Symphony to advance Open RAN adoption.
Article Topics
5G | Boost Mobile | Kubernetes | Open RAN | Wind River
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