CONSUL GENERAL FERRER EXPLORES OPEN RAN TECHNOLOGY, OPPORTUNITIES FOR PH WITH KCCTECH INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS
Consul General Neil Ferrer, Consul Vanessa Bago-Llona, and Trade Commissioner Celynne Layug with KCCTech Innovative Solutions’ founders and managing partners, Hakan Kavlak (2nd from the left) and Ike Ahmet İlkgünCark (3rd from the left), at KCCTech headquarters in Walnut Creek, California. (San Francisco PCG photo)
WALNUT CREEK, CALIFORNIA – Philippine Consul General in San Francisco Neil Ferrer met with Ike Ahmet İlkgün Cark and Hakan Kavlak, founders and managing partners of KCCTech Innovative Solutions, at its headquarters and Open RAN Test and Integration Center Lab in Walnut Creek, California on 1 February 2024.
Consul Vanessa Bago-Llona, Trade Commissioner Celynne Layug, and Economic Assistant Jennifer Sto. Domingo also joined the visit.
KCCTech is one of the companies that actively participated in a sustainability roundtable organized by the Consulate and the Philippine Trade and Investment Center in Silicon Valley with the Oakland Export Assistance Center of the U.S. Commercial Service-U.S. Department of Commerce and Northern California District Export Council (DEC), during the sidelines of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders Week in November 2023.
Consulate officials visited the headquarters that featured KCCTech’s Open RAN Testing and Integration Center Lab. The tour focused on KCCTech’s 5G Private OpenRAN solutions, highlighting the streamlined setup, operation, testing, and analysis capabilities for multi-vendor configurations geared toward enhancing overall business efficiency.
The KCCTech team provided insights into the benefits of Open RAN, emphasizing its interoperability, enabling cost-effective upgrades and optimization, contributing to a more adaptable and agile telecom infrastructure, and supporting digital connectivity.
The KCCTech leadership introduced its Network in a Box (NiB). According to KCCTech, NiB is an innovative portable 5G stand-alone and private network solution that consolidates all necessary hardware and software into a single unit. NiB’s applications include providing a reliable private network for crucial information exchange among disaster responders and law enforcement officials.
Founded in Silicon Valley in 2016, KCCTech is a trailblazing tech startup that harnesses innovation, expertise and interoperability through the Open RAN architecture. The company caters to wireless carriers and telecom operators, specializing in cutting-edge engineering services and technical expertise and aid digitization and connectivity efforts in the U.S. and abroad. END
Hakan Kavlak (rightmost) and Ike Ahmet İlkgün Cark (2nd from the right), founders and managing partners of KCCTech Innovative Solutions, provide a site tour for Philippine Consulate General officials on 1 February 2024. (San Francisco PCG photo)