Ericsson Takes Stock Of Open RAN Standardization, Integration And Scaled Deployment
RCRWirelessNews, Tuesday, October 1st, 2024
Before examining what it will take to industrialize Open RAN, let's look at what it means for a technology to be industrialized.
At a high-level, it needs to be standardized, cost-efficient, able to integrate with other technologies and into other systems, and it needs to be deployed at scale. Historical examples include the steam engine, the mechanized loom, Eli Whitney's concept of interchangeable parts, Henry Ford's assembly line production methodology, and the telegraph. That last one, the first form of electrical telecommunications, is what started Lars Magnus Ericsson's eponymous company which, 148 years later, is now considering industrialization of another telecommunications technology-Open RAN.