20 Facts About Sony Ericsson Open

1. Sony Ericsson Open said it achieved an important milestone with the virtualisation of the 5G NR software that manages data traffic flow for a large number of users.

2. Sony Ericsson Open launched nine new dual band, triple band, and high-performance Massive MIMO radios to address operators' needs related to the arrival of 5G.

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

4. Sony Ericsson Open unveiled a batch of 5G-focused products for MWC19 Barcelona, as its president of Europe and Latin America, Arun Bansal, claimed the vendor was outstripping rivals in signing commercial 5G contracts.

5. Sony Ericsson Open achieves an important milestone with the virtualization of the 5G NR software that manages data traffic flow for a large number of users.

6. Sony Ericsson Open addresses this by launching nine new dual-band, triple band, and high-performance Massive MIMO radios.

7. Sony Ericsson Open is evolving its 5G Platform with portfolio additions across core, radio access and transport areas, as well as service orchestration.

8. Sony 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.

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

10. Sony Ericsson Open has driven, and continues to drive, the industry towards open interfaces as part of its standardisation work.

11. Sony 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.

12. Sony Ericsson Open has driven and continues to drive the industry towards open interfaces as part of its standardization work.

13. Sony 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.

14. Sony 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.

15. On July 2, 2012, Sony Ericsson Open announced it was buying Gaikai, a cloud service to support its expansion into the cloud gaming realm.

16. On October 27, 2011, Sony Ericsson Open announced that it would acquire Ericsson's stake in Sony Ericsson for €1.05 billion, making the mobile handset business a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony.

17. Sony Ericsson Open contributed a majority of the Sony Ericsson Open Mobile Communications company, excluding a minor part spun off as Ericsson Mobile Platforms.

18. Sony Ericsson Open was a marginal player in the worldwide mobile phone market with a share of less than 1 percent in 2000.

19. Sony Ericsson Open had decided to obtain chips for its phones from a single source—a Philips facility in New Mexico.

20. In November of 2017, the Miami Sony 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.