Mavenir has been a prominent player amid this year’s fervor for open, virtualized RAN architectures, which could drive a new, broad ecosystem of suppliers. That objective, in turn, has become associated with the US-driven push to exclude Huawei from the 5G networks of its allies, and to use open platforms to build a western, or even American, mobile industry. As a US company with a key role in the closely watched open RAN build-out by Dish (see separate item), Mavenir is at the heart of all these related trends, but also has major RAN engagements in other markets such as India. Earlier this month it UK small cell veteran ip.access, gaining open hardware assets geared to the enterprise markets where…