EchoStar Corporation celebrated the grand opening of the Open RAN Center for Integration and Deployment (ORCID) in Cheyenne, Wyoming, on Wednesday, September 18, 2024.

EchoStar Corporation today announced the launch of the Open RAN Center for Integration and Deployment (ORCID), a state-of-the-art Open RAN (O-RAN) testing and evaluation lab housed at EchoStar’s Cheyenne, Wyoming, data center.

NTIA Administrator Alan Davidson and Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund Director Amanda Toman joined EchoStar Co-Founder and Chairman Charlie Ergen, EchoStar CEO Hamid Akhavan, EVP and Chief Network Officer Marc Rouanne and other stakeholders to announce a $50 million grant to the ORCID consortium to establish an Open RAN testing center at a DISH Network (a wholly-owned subsidiary of EchoStar) facility in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

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