MAVENIR
COMBA TELECOM
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In the modern telecom industry , no company is an island . “ Any telecommunication network vendor depends on its supplier ecosystem , whether that ’ s Nokia , Ericsson , Huawei , and so on . No one can exist on their own in this commercial context ,” Koshi explains . “ For example , we work with the market leaders in antennas , globally , such as Comba Telecom .” Headquartered in Hong Kong , Comba Telecom is one of the world ’ s leading solutions and services providers for the wireless access and antenna market . Earlier this year , Comba and
Mavenir collaborated on a groundbreaking project with Turkcell , delivering integrated OpenRAN solutions into the Turkish telecom ’ s network core . “ We did a truly innovative project with Comba and Turkcell , implementing fully containerised CU / DU and Open Front-Haul with Split 7.2 in trial deployments ,” says Koshi . “ That means the radio is completely open to any base band software or other company software . It ’ s an alternative to the proprietary common private radio interface that you get with a lot of suppliers today , which gives a massive amount of flexibility .”
“ You can ’ t build high speed 5G networks in the same way that we built 2G and 3G networks ”
— Virtyt Koshi , GM , EMEA , Mavenir
DECEMBER 2020