ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ม.ค. 2024
- A conversation with Aji Ed at Nokia, John Baker at Mavenir, Geoff Hollingworth at Rakuten Symphony and Monica Paolini at Senza Fili
Recent announcements by AT&T, 1&1 and Deutsche Telekom indicate an inflection point in the readiness for open RAN commercial deployments, but also an emerging new approach in vendor selection.
In this Sparring Partners, I talked to John Baker at Mavenir, Geoff Hollingworth at Rakuten Symphony and Aji Ed at Nokia about how vendors approach disaggregation in the open RAN market today and how they expect that vendor selection will evolve in the future in the overall RAN market.
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Video sections
01:23 Introduction: Vendors’ perspective instead of operator’s perspective as the topic of the Sparring Partners
03:31 Debaters introduce themselves
05:00 How many vendors should there be in an open RAN deployment, brownfield/greenfield operators
06:41 Change can be difficult, but the path to open RAN is clear; long-term growth in wireless
09:26 Interoperability, specs, choices, disaggregation, ecosystem
14:54 Open RAN beyond the RAN
15:54 Supply chain in open RAN
21:50 Fragmentation risks, opportunities for new, smaller vendors
25:50 Chipset choices, performance, profitability
29:12 Commercialization, flexibility, power efficiency, operators driving open RAN
32:28 Cultural change, risk adversity, pace of transformation
34:07 AI, cloud, mindset
37:01 System integration and management; Wi-Fi and 5G; outsourcing
45:11 Accountability, protecting the network, addressing operators’ requirements
50:22 Certification, profitability
53:24 Timeline for large commercial deployments; questioning assumptions and results in market forecasts on open RAN
57:48 Competitiveness
59:27 Flexibility and different use cases
