en.Wedoany.com Reported - On June 2, Taiwan, China-based wireless infrastructure semiconductor company Metanoia Communications announced at COMPUTEX 2026 that its 5G Open SDR platform has been integrated with AI-RAN-capable 5G Distributed Unit servers, launching the MOSART open software-defined radio base platform for global Open RAN equipment vendors, telecom operators, and ODM/OEM partners to advance commercialization.
The key focus of Metanoia's move is to push Open RAN from "interface openness" and "hardware white-boxing" toward "edge AI support" and "software-upgradable wireless platforms." Traditional wireless base station equipment has long relied on closed software and hardware stacks, limiting operators and equipment manufacturers in feature iteration, supply chain choices, cost control, and multi-vendor interoperability. The value of Open RAN lies in decoupling the Radio Unit, Distributed Unit, Central Unit, and management and orchestration capabilities, reducing single-vendor lock-in through open interfaces and reference architectures. Centered on the MT2824 5G SoC, Metanoia combines FR1 and FR2 Open RAN radio solutions, the MOSART software stack, hardware design kits, and semi-turnkey software development kits, aiming to enable ODM and OEM companies to develop equipment for indoor, outdoor, fixed wireless access, and private network scenarios more quickly. For the communications equipment supply chain, this approach helps expand 5G wireless product development from being dominated by large equipment vendors to an ecosystem model involving more chip, software, and manufacturing partners.
The company also disclosed that Metanoia has become the first chip supplier formally included in the O-RAN Alliance WG7 white-box reference design architecture, covering FR1 24 dBm and 5W Radio Units, with FR2 50 dBm support currently under final review.
AI-RAN is another core direction showcased at this COMPUTEX. As communication networks evolve from simply carrying connections to supporting edge inference, video analysis, industrial control, private network services, and low-latency applications, operators need to deploy more programmable, schedulable, and upgradable computing capabilities on the radio access side. Metanoia's software-defined radio platform allows AI workloads to run closer to the network edge, improving resource utilization and extending hardware lifecycle through software upgrades. Its initial product portfolio includes 4T4R 24 dBm indoor Open Radio Units, 4T4R 5W and 15W FR1 outdoor Open Radio Units, and 50 dBm EIRP outdoor radio equipment for FR2 scenarios. For customers looking to build enterprise private networks, fixed wireless access, or edge AI networks, the open SDR platform enables wireless hardware, network functions, and AI applications to follow a more flexible upgrade path, rather than requiring full equipment replacement with each capability change.
This commercialization also carries a clear industry chain signal. The Taiwan region has an industrial foundation in chip design, network equipment, servers, ODM manufacturing, and communication testing. By showcasing the AI-RAN ecosystem at COMPUTEX, Metanoia is effectively connecting the 5G wireless equipment chain with AI servers, edge computing, and open network architectures. As AI applications shift from cloud data centers to factories, campuses, ports, mines, medical institutions, and operator edge nodes, radio access equipment must simultaneously address connectivity, computing power, energy consumption, lifecycle, and multi-vendor interoperability. If Metanoia can lower the barrier to equipment development through MOSART and enhance interoperability via the O-RAN reference architecture, it will have more opportunities to enter next-generation 5G private networks, AI-RAN trial networks, and operator open network procurement.
Subsequent deployment still depends on operator validation, ecosystem partner scale, FR2 high-frequency product review progress, and ODM/OEM commercial project conversion speed. Over the past few years, Open RAN has progressed from concept validation to partial deployment, but true large-scale adoption still requires cost, performance, reliability, and operational tools to mature simultaneously. By integrating open SDR, 5G SoC, MOSART, and AI-RAN servers into a single solution, Metanoia signals that competition in communication equipment is shifting from point radio frequency hardware to system-level competition involving chips, software stacks, edge AI, and open ecosystem collaboration.
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