Executive Interview: Vodafone’s Lucia De Miguel Albertos on the ultimate RAN Intelligent Controller

At the heart of any significant Open RAN deployment will, ultimately, be the RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC), the ‘operating system’ running multiple applications that deliver the efficiencies, capabilities and innovation that underpin the Open RAN promise. But what makes any RIC, or the apps that run on them, better than others? How is the RIC developer ecosystem shaping up? And how should network operators think about the deployment and use of the near-real time RIC and the non-real time RIC with their respective xApps and rApps?

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