Towards Open RAN deployments at scale: Applying operational experience

This panel session shared insights gained from operational experience with a growing number of commercial Open RAN networks. It discussed how these learnings can be broadly applied to drive scale in the global deployment ecosystem. Topics covered in this session included:

• Perspectives on the remaining challenges to be overcome for the full-scale industrialisation of Open RAN
• Progress in product development
• Hardware evolution: How cloud infrastructure hardware is closing the gap on purpose-built hardware
• Energy consumption: How Open RAN can match or even surpass traditional RAN
• The integration, openness and reality of multivendor interoperability

Featuring:

• MODERATOR: Gabriel Brown, Senior Principal Analyst, Mobile Networks, Heavy Reading
• Bernard Bureau, VP, Wireless Strategy & Services, TELUS
• Gerardo Giaretta, Vice President, Product Management, Qualcomm
• Mark Atkinson, SVP RAN Business Unit, Mobile Networks, Nokia
• Rob Soni, VP – RAN Technology, AT&T
• Sadayuki Abeta, Chief Open RAN Strategist and CTO of OREX SAI, NTT DOCOMO