O-RAN ALLIANCE Summit MWC 2025

O-RAN ALLIANCE – Enabling continuous innovation in AI-RAN, security and efficiency

Mar 17, 2025

Panel Discussion

Throughout 2024, the O-RAN ALLIANCE has enhanced Open RAN specifications to include continuous innovation. This session looks at the progress made since the last year’s O-RAN ALLIANCE Summit, including:

  • Open fronthaul enhancements
  • Security enhancements and zero-trust architecture
  • How Open RAN accelerates value capture from AI innovation:
    • RAN intelligent controller (RIC) and service management orchestration (SMO) enhancement with AI
    • How generative AI (GenAI) could enhance the SMO and RAN management
  • Energy efficiency
  • Data collection and utilisation
  • O-RAN Software Community (OSC) progress and alignment/coordination with other open-source projects
  • New types of certificates and badges that have been introduced, as well as a certification and badging programme for non O-RAN ALLIANCE members

Featuring:

  • MODERATOR: Gabriel Brown, Senior Principal Analyst, Mobile Networks, Heavy Reading
  • Awn Muhammad, Head of Technical Standards, Rakuten Mobile
  • Chih-Lin I, China Mobile Chief Scientist, Wireless Technologies, China Mobile Research Institute
  • David Kinsey, Expert Member Technical Staff, AT&T
  • Nagendra Bykampadi, VP/Global head of Product Security, Rakuten Symphony
  • Petr Ledl, VP Network Trials and Integration Lab, Deutsche Telekom

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