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