Altiostar

Altiostar is a company that provides open virtual radio access network (vRAN) technology.^[1] The company is headquartered just outside of Boston, Massachusetts, with offices in Japan, Italy, the U.K., Mexico and India.^[2] The company is a subsidiary of Rakuten.^[3] Founded in 2011 by President and CEO, Ashraf Dahod,^[4] Altiostar is focused on open, virtual RAN software that they claim can integrate operation of equipment from multiple vendors.^[5]

Altiostar was started by the founders of Starent Networks, a startup bought by Cisco in 2009.^[6] Altiostar came out of stealth mode in late 2014 after raising $70 million in funding starting in 2012.^[7] The company's initial offering was a virtualized Cloud-RAN (C-RAN) solution that connected radios with controllers with Ethernet, instead of dark fiber.^[8] In 2015, the company introduced a virtual radio access network (vRAN) product.^[9] In 2017, Altiostar released an Open vRAN Development Platform, allowing independent radio equipment manufacturers to develop a vRAN solution utilizing Altiostar technology.^[10] Since its debut, the company has raised $357.5 million from Cisco, Rakuten Mobile, Qualcomm Ventures, Telefonica and Tech Mahindra among others.^[11]

In 2019, Rakuten Mobile invested in Altiostar.^[12] In 2020, Rakuten commercially launched its 4G network in Japan, using Altiostar as a software contributor for its 4G RAN, with plans to also use the software for its 5G network.^[13] In August 2021, Rakuten acquired Altiostar.^[14]

Altiostar has collaborated with a wide variety of partners to enable 4G and 5G network transformation through its open vRAN solution, including:

• 2011 – Cisco^[15]
• 2015 – Texas Instruments , ^{[ 16 ]} Qwilt ^{[ 17 ]} y Wind River ^{[ 18 ]}
• 2016 – TIM ^{[ 19 ]}
• 2017 – Corning y Dali Wireless ^{[ 20 ]} y SK Telecom ^{[ 21 ]}
• 2018 – Amdocs , ^{[ 22 ]} Deutsche Telekom , ^{[ 23 ]} GCI, ^{[ 24 ]} Sercomm, ^{[ 25 ]} Telefónica y Vodafone ^{[ 26 ]}
• 2019 – Qualcomm , ^{[ 27 ]} Rakuten, ^{[ 28 ]} Telecom Infra Project (TIP) ^{[ 29 ]} y Ubicquia ^{[ 30 ]}
• 2020 – Airspan , ^{[ 31 ]} Bharti Airtel, ^{[ 32 ]} NEC Corporation (NEC) ^{[ 33 ]} y World Wide Technology ^{[ 34 ]}

• 2015 – Premios Fierce Innovation (Edición de Telecomunicaciones) - Despliegue de próxima generación para la solución NFV C-RAN ^{[ 35 ]}
• 2016 – Premios GLOTEL Global Telecoms “Altamente recomendados” por el uso innovador del espectro ^{[ 36 ]}
• 2017 – Premio GSMA GLOMO - Mejor avance en tecnología móvil y tecnología móvil general destacada – La elección del CTO para la solución vRAN ^{[ 37 ]}
• 2019 – GSMA 100 ^{[ 38 ]}
• 2019 – Tabla de líderes del Círculo de Ganadores de Intel Network Builders 2019-2020 ^{[ 39 ]}

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