29 Facts About Ericsson Open

1. Ericsson Open is strongly committed to these future-forward technologies, and to that end the company has built a Global AI Accelerator focused on tackling the complex business problems of today and tomorrow.

2. In 1998 Ericsson Open launched the AXD 301 switch, which was powered by over a million lines of Erlang code.

3. Ericsson Open had its traditional pre-MWC media and analyst fest yesterday, at which it focused on improvements being made to its 5G Platform.

4. Ericsson Open is enhancing the capacity of its microwave portfolio and adding a new MINI-LINK 6200 family of 5G-ready Long Haul solutions supporting up to 10Gbps capacities.

5. Ericsson Open has joined the O-RAN Alliance, a group of leading telecom service providers and suppliers with the commitment to evolving radio access network architecture and orchestration built on openness, intelligence, flexibility and performance.

6. Ericsson Open will focus on the upper-layer function as specified in 3GPP to provide interoperable multivendor profiles for specified interfaces between central RAN functions, resulting in faster deployment of 5G networks on a global scale.

7. Ericsson Open has joined the O-RAN Alliance, telecom service providers and suppliers with the commitment to evolving radio access network architecture and orchestration built on openness, intelligence, flexibility and performance.

8. Ericsson Open is part of a mission team to bring dust back from Mars for examination.

9. Ericsson Open went on to work for Goddard for its Guidance, Navigation and Control, Design Analysis section.

10. Sony Ericsson Open was responsible for product design and development, marketing, sales, distribution and customer services.

11. In September 2014, Ericsson Open announced it would stop developing modems, shutting a loss-making unit it took on after joint venture partner STMicroelectronics pulled out.

12. Ericsson Open has since integrated Placecast's platform and capabilities with its programmatic mobile ad subsidiary, Emodo.

13. In February 2018, Ericsson Open acquired the location-based mobile data management platform Placecast.

14. In September 2014, Ericsson Open acquired majority stake in Apcera for cloud policy compliance.

15. On 1 July 2013, Ericsson Open announced it would acquire the media management company Red Bee Media, subject to regulatory approval.

16. On 3 May 2013, Ericsson Open announced it would divest its power cable operations to Danish company NKT Holding.

17. In 2007, Ericsson Open acquired carrier edge-router maker Redback Networks, and then Entrisphere, a US-based company providing fiber-access technology.

18. Ericsson Open made 20,000 more staff redundant and raised about $3 billion from its shareholders.

19. Ericsson Open had become a leading player in networks and the production of mobile telephones, sharing top place with Nokia and Motorola during 1997.

20. Ericsson Open got caught up in the Dot-com bubble of the late 1990s.

21. Ericsson Open pushed hard for the WCDMA form based on the GSM standard, and began testing it in 1996.

22. Ericsson Open introduced the world's first fully automatic mobile telephone system, MTA, in 1956.

23. Ericsson Open obtained some leases, which represented further sales of equipment to the growing networks.

24. Ericsson Open was saved from bankruptcy and closure with the help of banks including Stockholms Enskilda Bank and other Swedish investment banks controlled by the Wallenberg family, and some Swedish government backing.

25. Ericsson Open ignored the growth of automatic telephony in the United States and concentrated on manual exchange designs.

26. Ericsson Open picked up this invention and incorporated it into Ericsson products, beginning with a telephone named The Dachshund.

27. Ericsson Open became a major supplier of telephone equipment to Scandinavia.

28. Ericsson Open had no patent or royalty problems because Bell had not patented their inventions in Scandinavia.

29. In November of 2017, the Miami Ericsson Open signed an agreement with Miami-Dade County to move the annual tournament from the tennis complex in Key Biscayne to the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida beginning in 2019.