Mavenir is working together with National Telecom Public Company Limited (NT), a state-owned telecommunications company, 5GCT, and Cisco Systems (Thailand) to launch the first 5G Open RAN Smart City in Ban Chang, Thailand. Connected to Pattaya and Bangkok via motorway location of Ban Chang city, the project is within close proximity to U-Tapao International Airport, Map Ta Phut Industrial Zone, and the new master-planned Ban Chang Smart City.

The Ban Chang Smart City 5G Private Network operates on Millimeter-wave (mmWave) spectrum, a spectrum which is ideally suited for a network operating Internet of Thing (IoT) sensors, drones, and smart poles, all applications which require fast data uplink to the core for realtime analysis and city management.

Mavenir provided a cloud-native, open architecture-based Private Network solution that enabled NT to reach the promise of 5G. The software-based platform enabled the transformation of the mobile communication private network into a completely virtualized environment, where devices, applications, and services run on an automated network using open architecture, containers, and artificial intelligence (AI).