The Evolution of O-RAN RIC
RCRWirelessNews, Friday, December 6th, 2024
The O-RAN Alliance was developed to drive advancements in RAN by separating the management and control plane from the user data processing plane
3GPP Radio Access Network (RAN) technology has evolved from the second through third, fourth and fifth generations, to significantly increase air-interface efficiency while supporting new services. During that time, commercial RAN deployments surged globally as operators rushed to expand network capacity to meet the ever-increasing user throughput demand.
While commercial rollouts were significantly increasing, the operations and management efforts were getting exponentially complicated. Lack of open interfaces and proprietary vendor solutions prevented the potential gains of Automation and Self Organizing Network (SON) from being fully realized.