He holds a bachelors in electronics and communications engineering from the University of Birmingham (UK), and is a chartered engineer (C.Eng) and a Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (MIET).
“I’m eager to hit the ground running and to grow our service delivery capability to support the demand for Open RAN that I’m seeing across the globe,” said Ben Gardiner, Vice President, Customer Operations, Altiostar. “I look forward to coordinating with our internal teams and the company’s partners to deliver exceptional support for our customers.”
Gardiner will be part of the executive management team, reporting to Altiostar CEO Ashraf Dahod.
“We have a fast-growing pipeline of customers who are realizing the benefits of an open and cloud-native approach to the radio access network,” said Ashraf Dahod, CEO of Altiostar. “With Ben Gardiner’s customer engagement and development expertise, we expect to stay ahead of the curve to provide an extremely high level of support to our customers. His history of success in operations and program management will help us best support the goals of our customers and remain the market leader in Open RAN.”
About Altiostar
Altiostar provides 4G and 5G open virtualized RAN (Open vRAN) software that supports open interfaces and virtualizes the radio access baseband functions to build a disaggregated multi-vendor, web-scale, cloud-based mobile network. Operators can add intelligence, quickly adapt the network for different services and automate operations to rapidly scale the network and reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). Altiostar collaborates with a growing ecosystem of partners to support a diverse Open RAN supply chain. The Altiostar Open vRAN solution has been deployed globally, including the world’s first cloud-native commercial-scale mobile network with Rakuten Mobile in Japan. For more information, visit www.altiostar.com.
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