Mavenir is best known for its virtualized EPC (evolved packet core), but since its acquisition of Ranzure, it is also a player in the open vRAN space too, supporting the emerging open interfaces which will allow networks to be stitched together using RAN, core and transport components from many suppliers. Mavenir is active, in particular, in TIP, CORD and the xRAN group – the former now part of the enlarged Open Networking Foundation platform; the latter in the process of being merged with the Cloud-RAN Alliance to form the ORAN Alliance. None of these open platforms and would-be standards will have much impact if they are not surrounded by a wide ecosystem of partners, and some of the power in…