A Guide To Open RAN
telecoms,com, Monday, August 14,2023
Telecoms.com gathered together a panel of industry experts to define and analyse the future trajectory of Open RAN, the approach to building networks from an a la carte menu of equipment manufacturers.
Open RAN is one of those esoteric industry terms that doesn't tend to escape from Planet Telecoms' orbit. While your average person on the street might have half a chance of visualising what all the fuss is about with the rise of satellite connectivity, or instinctively understand that 5G is better than 4G because it's one better, try to start a conversation with them about Open RAN and watch their eyes glaze over.
It is however one of the biggest topics in the industry, not least of which because of the amount of political interest there is in seeing it succeed, prompting substantial and regular sacks of government cash to be deposited upon the heads of those running various Open RAN projects in order to boost it.