Orange France and Samsung completed the first 4G and 5G calls on a virtualised and open RAN, hailed as a further relocate towards a more open, software-based architecture.
A field test in a city in southwestern France was conducted following initial testing in Orange laboratories.
Orange and Samsung are advancing to the next stage, planning to expand to additional sites in the southwest and western parts of France by the finish of the year.
The 4G and 5G calls employed Samsung’s vRAN software and open RAN-compliant, triple band radios, along with a Wind River cloud platform, Intel processors and Dell Technologies hardware.
Emmanuel Lugagne Delpon, CTO Networks at Orange France, stated the “first call on a virtualised RAN in France, based on Samsung technology, paves the way for our future cloud RAN deployment”.
Orange and Samsung conducted an industest first 2G vRAN call on an open RAN network shared with Vodafone Group in Romania in 2024
The operator unveiled an open RAN laboratory in France applying Samsung and Nokia equipment in 2021.
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