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<iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0f2UGvvuSP4?modestbranding=1&rel=0" width="970" height="546" frameborder="0" scrolling="auto" allowfullscreen></iframe>Robert Curran, Appledore Research (00:19):
O-ran is obviously a very mature market today. It's dominated by top for 3, 4, 5 players. Almost everything it goes into them, but it also has this generational procurement cycle, seven to 10 years, which is a feature of traditional ran. I think what we are seeing is that first, the impact of cloud still trailing through, and then the impact of open land on just adjusting the shape of that market. The open land has really become into the mainstream of the ran market rather than being a fringe thing. I
Sarat Puthenpura, ONF (00:52):
See three fundamental aspects when you come to Next Generation Wine has. One is desegregation and openness. The second one is network function virtualization as much as possible. And third one is the injection of A ML capabilities in the network wherever it is feasible and applicable.
Warren Bayek, Wind River (01:16):
If telcos wait for the next G to get that started, they're going to miss the boat and a lot of the telcos that have already started adopting this, they're going to have a massive advantage if the other telcos don't partake in this technology today.
Robert Curran, Appledore Research (01:31):
I think that's a network strategy that says we've just done 5G, we're going to wait until six G is a crazy idea. You might as well wait for flying cars.
Javed Khan, Rakuten Symphony (01:40):
We were able to prove that it's possible to build a viable system that can provide the same or better performance than existing legacy based brands. Being able to integrate a lot of different moving parts from the hardware to the cloud platform to the software and that required. That's where a lot of the system integration companies and system integrations play a very useful part to bring the solution together.
Warren Bayek, Wind River (02:14):
What I hope we get out of Open Ran is a better user experience in general, so not a better phone experience, but a better life experience. We are enabling an intelligent cloud edge much as we enabled a core cloud years and years ago. What I hope to see out of Open Ran is a way that we as an industry use the compute resources at the far intelligent edge in a way that fundamentally changes our lives.
O-ran is obviously a very mature market today. It's dominated by top for 3, 4, 5 players. Almost everything it goes into them, but it also has this generational procurement cycle, seven to 10 years, which is a feature of traditional ran. I think what we are seeing is that first, the impact of cloud still trailing through, and then the impact of open land on just adjusting the shape of that market. The open land has really become into the mainstream of the ran market rather than being a fringe thing. I
Sarat Puthenpura, ONF (00:52):
See three fundamental aspects when you come to Next Generation Wine has. One is desegregation and openness. The second one is network function virtualization as much as possible. And third one is the injection of A ML capabilities in the network wherever it is feasible and applicable.
Warren Bayek, Wind River (01:16):
If telcos wait for the next G to get that started, they're going to miss the boat and a lot of the telcos that have already started adopting this, they're going to have a massive advantage if the other telcos don't partake in this technology today.
Robert Curran, Appledore Research (01:31):
I think that's a network strategy that says we've just done 5G, we're going to wait until six G is a crazy idea. You might as well wait for flying cars.
Javed Khan, Rakuten Symphony (01:40):
We were able to prove that it's possible to build a viable system that can provide the same or better performance than existing legacy based brands. Being able to integrate a lot of different moving parts from the hardware to the cloud platform to the software and that required. That's where a lot of the system integration companies and system integrations play a very useful part to bring the solution together.
Warren Bayek, Wind River (02:14):
What I hope we get out of Open Ran is a better user experience in general, so not a better phone experience, but a better life experience. We are enabling an intelligent cloud edge much as we enabled a core cloud years and years ago. What I hope to see out of Open Ran is a way that we as an industry use the compute resources at the far intelligent edge in a way that fundamentally changes our lives.
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Preview Show
Take a look at what to expect from next week's Future of RAN Summit, with highlights from Appledore Research, Open Networking Foundation, Wind River and Rakuten Symphony on lessons from early Open RAN deployments and its future direction. Register now and take part in our poll, the results of which will be revealed during the live show on Tuesday 13th May. And don't forget to submit your questions.
The summit will also explore:
- Government policies accelerating Open RAN adoption
- Energy efficiency challenges and solutions
- AI-driven RAN optimisation
- Cloud-native operational models
- The path to commercial-scale deployments
Recorded May 2025
