Dish Gets $50M NTIA Grant for ORAN Center
Dish Wireless, which is building a stand-alone 5G open radio access network, received a $50 million grant from NTIA to establish the Open RAN Center for Integration & Deployment (ORCID), EchoStar said Wednesday. Echostar said the grant was the largest…
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so far under the Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund. ORCHID “will serve a critical role in strengthening the global Open RAN ecosystem and building the next generation of wireless networks," said Charlie Ergen, EchoStar chairman: The center "will be uniquely positioned to test and evaluate Open RAN interoperability, performance and security from domestic and international vendors.” The center combines field and lab testing and will use Dish’s spectrum, the company said: Multi-tenant lab and field testing will happen in Dish’s Cheyenne, Wyoming facility. NTIA also announced five other grants under the program Wednesday, including $21.7 million to fund a Viavi testing lab. The company “aims to create a fully automated, cooperative, open and impartial testing-as-a-service offering that's dedicated to Open RAN interoperability, performance and security,” NTIA said. The agency awarded $2 million to Virginia Tech to explore ORAN cybersecurity. Cirrus360 gets nearly $2 million “to develop a new test method that uses a digital twin of integrated RAN components to model their implementation,” NTIA said. Northeastern University and Rice University also got funding. “The new facilities we fund with this round of grants will help move open technologies from the lab to the field,” said NTIA Administrator Alan Davidson.