"Akraino is one of the key open source communities that is accelerating the openness to 5G implementation," said AT&T's Mazin Gilbert, vice president of advanced technology and systems, in an email to FierceTelecom. "AT&T will continue to collaborate with other telco operators and vendors in accelerating 5G innovations and production innovation zone trials by using Akraino blueprints."
"AT&T and Akraino community members contributed to the enhancement of the telco appliance (TA) / Radio Edge Cloud blueprint (REC), which is a building block for the SEBA blueprint in R2," Gilbert said. "AT&T is using the REC blueprint in the 5G Production Innovation Zone trials."