The After Show was broadcast live at the end of Day One of the TelecomTV Summit on Open RAN. TelecomTV’s Guy Daniels and Ray Le Maistre were joined by panelists for this end-of-day question and answer session. Among the questions raised by our audience were:

Who will do the integration for all of these disaggregated boxes?
If Open RAN is not a technology that can substitute 2G and 3G, will mobile operators have two sets of parallel base stations?
Telcos have been trying to court developers for years now, why do you think the RIC will do any better?
Who will develop these Open RAN-based services? Who will sell them, and what business models underlie these services?

Featuring:

• Sachin Katti, Advisor for Strategy at VMware and Co-Chair of the Technical Steering Committee at the O-RAN Alliance
• Neil McRae, Managing Director & Chief Architect, BT
• John Baker, SVP Business Development, Mavenir
• Colin Bryce, Senior Director, Product Line, CommScope
• Terje Jensen, SVP Head of Global Network Architecture, Director 5G Readiness Strategic Program, Technologies and Services, Telenor
• Raj Yavatkar, Chief Technology Officer, Juniper Networks

Broadcast Live: October 2021

Speakers

Colin Bryce

Senior Director, Product Line, CommScope

John Baker

SVP, Business Development, Mavenir

Neil McRae

Managing Director & Chief Architect, BT

Raj Yavatkar

Chief Technology Officer, Juniper Networks

Sachin Katti

Advisor for Strategy at VMware and Co-Chair of the Technical Steering Committee at the O-RAN Alliance

Dr. Terje Jensen

Senior Vice President/Head of Global Network Architecture, Director 5G Readiness Strategic Program, Technologies and Services, Telenor