[3] Founded in 2011 by President and CEO, Ashraf Dahod,[4] Altiostar is focused on open, virtual RAN software that they claim can integrate operation of equipment from multiple vendors.
[7] The company's initial offering was a virtualized Cloud-RAN (C-RAN) solution that connected radios with controllers with Ethernet, instead of dark fiber.
[10] Since its debut, the company has raised $357.5 million from Cisco, Rakuten Mobile, Qualcomm Ventures, Telefonica and Tech Mahindra among others.
Altiostar has collaborated with a wide variety of partners to enable 4G and 5G network transformation through its open vRAN solution, including: 2011 – Cisco[15] 2015 – Texas Instruments,[16] Qwilt [17] and Wind River[18]
2017 – Corning and Dali Wireless[20] and SK Telecom[21] 2018 – Amdocs,[22] Deutsche Telekom,[23] GCI,[24] Sercomm,[25] Telefónica and Vodafone[26] 2019 – Qualcomm,[27] Rakuten,[28] Telecom Infra Project (TIP) [29] and Ubicquia[30] 2020 – Airspan,[31] Bharti Airtel,[32] NEC Corporation (NEC)[33] and World Wide Technology[34] 2015 – Fierce Innovation Awards (Telecom Edition) - Next-Gen Deployment for NFV C-RAN Solution[35] 2016 – GLOTEL Global Telecoms Awards “Highly Recommended” for Innovative Use of Spectrum[36] 2017 – GSMA GLOMO Award - Best Mobile Technology Breakthrough and Outstanding Overall Mobile Technology – The CTO's choice for vRAN Solution[37]