Four Drivers Of Open Ran For In-Building Cellular
RCRWirelessNews, Tuesday, November 5th, 2024
CommScope sees market opportunity, TCO, ecosystem support and convergence all making the case for in-building Open RAN
Reflecting on the typical 10-year cellular generation cycle, as well as the roughly 20-year lifecycle of a G, CommScope's Luigi Tarlazzi, vice president of engineering, pointed out that attention is historically turned to in-building investment at roughly the mid-point of the decade. So 4G was launched in 2010 and in-building investment ramped around 2015. If you count the start of 5G as around 2020, that means the in-building step is upon us.
'This is happening now,' he told attendees to the Open RAN Global Forum, available on-demand here. 'We've started to see a huge uptick in 5G deployments for large public venues,' including stadiums, airports and the like. But what does that mean for Open RAN which has similarly increased in interest along with the build out of 5G?