Amdocs announced that it is part of a consortium that has secured UK Government funding in an initiative designed to accelerate Open RAN deployment in the UK and globally. Led by the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) [3], ARI-5G will validate use cases for open and disaggregated solutions with innovations in 5G power consumption, energy efficiency, and spectrum management " accelerating successful and scalable commercialization over an initial 18-month period. The consortium will implement, test and demonstrate a standards-based RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) platform with specific applications.

The project will result in proven RAN automation use cases that can be deployed in both third party and open-source RICs, providing real-world validation in a 5G SA (standalone) network. Amdocs will leverage its RF planning, optimization and Self-Organizing Networks (SON) use case experience to deploy and demonstrate multiple analytics and optimization applications. The other ARI-5G consortium members are BT, Accelleran, AttoCore, West Midlands 5G and VIAVI Solutions.