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Delivering on the Promise of Open RAN

13 February 2020 Sponsors: ECI Telecom

Open RAN promises many things; disaggregation, virtualization, a wider ecosystem, less reliance on a small number of suppliers, multivendor interoperability, a greater role for white box systems, more cost effective and scalable solutions, faster time to deployment and integration opportunities with edge computing. In time, many of these will be delivered but there is still much to be done. We have seen the first RFIs for open RAN solutions and through groups like the O-RAN Alliance and TIP there are already agreed specifications and proofs of concept. The challenge now is to deliver solutions that deliver on these promises.

There have already been deployments that take an open RAN approach. During 2019 Rakuten deployed virtual Distributed Units (DU) into 4,000 edge sites in Japan. The company worked with four key suppliers to ensure that the cloud core, NFV infrastructure (NFVi), Open Stack based cloud operations and control software, and server hardware, all worked together and was able to deliver the performance needed for LTE. The RAN architecture used is designed to be upgradable to 5G. Rakuten is already working on a second-generation solution that will be more widely deployed.

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Simon Stanley

Simon is the Founder and Principal Consultant at Earlswood Marketing and has over 25 years experience, holding marketing and technical positions at various companies including National Semiconductor and Fujitsu covering Europe, North America and Japan. Simon has wide experience of networking technologies and semiconductor solutions including 100G/ 400G, NFV/SDN, LTE, ATCA, G.Fast/DSL, multicore processors, FPGAs and switch fabrics for both consumer and business applications.

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