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Urban deployment and commercialisation
• SONIC will combine lab integration and testing Open RAN in public indoor and outdoor locations
• Once proven , vendors and operators can commercialise the new Open RAN products and vendors
• Help foster growth of UK ’ s role in the telecoms supply chain
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Enabling open networks in the UK through SONIC
• Open RAN standardises separate hardware , software and functions
• New and smaller vendors can enter the market , including UK organisations
• SONIC helps them integrate and prove their products in a lab or testbed alongside existing players
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Concentrating supply and evolving technology
• Fewer mobile equipment vendors through consolidation and market exit
• Vendors need scale to provide equipment , software , integration and support for a mobile site
• Emergence of software centric networking and cloud technologies in telecoms
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Composition by Digital Catapult . Vector assets by Bukhavets Mikhail – from Shutterstock