In the latest Open RAN news, Telecom Egypt is conducting trials, while Vodafone has announced an indoor small cell co-developed with Mavenir. Telecom Egypt is working with Mavenir Open RAN rival Altiostar, along with Cisco, Evenstar and the Telecom Infra Project, on its trial. It will use Altiostar software for the distributed unit (DU) and centralized unit (CU) functions, running on edge cloud infrastructure. This will be accompanied by Evenstar radio units (RUs). Evenstar is an initiative, backed by TIP, Vodafone and others, to provide common specifications for Open RAN radio units, designed to commoditize this equipment and lower barriers for many vendors to supply them, by offering readily deployable blueprints. The telco will also trial Cisco’s edge computing technology…