ASOCS Ltd. is a privately held company,a developer of on-premise cloud solutions for industries such as

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and

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. ASOCS is also collaborating with mobile network carriers to support the move to 5G, using full network

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and open interfaces such as xRAN, TIP and ONAP. ASOCS is headquartered in Rosh Ha'ayin, Israel, and it also has a development center in

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, Bengalore

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and offices in

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History

ASOCS was founded in 2003 by CEO Gilad Garon and CTO Doron Solomon, first as a manufacturer of

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s, and since 2013 has been focusing on virtualized communications for wireless networks. In February 2013, ASOCS have signed a strategic memorandum of understanding with

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for the joint development, commercialization, testing and deployment of large-scale baseband processing units for China Mobile's next generation Cloud-RAN network. In September 2017, the company launched Cyrus, an on-premise mobile cloud for enterprises. In February 2018, ASOCS partnered with

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's Open vRAN Ecosystem to provide fully virtualized, NFV-compatible virtual base station solutions for in-building wireless and macro-networks. On 9 January 2020, Sterlite Technologies Limited acquired 12.8% stake in ASOCS Limited. The acquisition of the stake is to strengthen the company's offering in the currently fast-growing virtualized radio access space.

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