AT&T switches on Ericsson Cloud RAN on 5G commercial network
AT&T (NYSE: T) and Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) today announced that they have begun deploying Ericsson Cloud RAN technology on AT&T’s commercial 5G network.The two companies have completed a Cloud RAN call as a milestone in deploying Open RAN. AT&T now has commercial traffic flowing on Cloud RAN sites, the first ones of which are located south of Dallas, Texas. The configuration used for the Cloud RAN call has been deployed in the AT&T network, and third-party vendors will be able to use this configuration for Open RAN in the future. Chris Sambar, Head of Network, AT&T, says: “This is the