One of the biggest challenges with Open RAN is pulling together the multiple elements from various vendors and getting them to work – Open RAN comes hand in hand with a major systems integration challenge. How can this be overcome? The development of ‘blueprints’ and models for pre-integrated, multi-vendor solutions appears to be a popular approach, but how applicable is that approach in the real world?

Speakers

Constantine Polychronopoulos

Vice President of 5G and Telco Cloud, Juniper

Francisco Martin Pignatelli

Head of Open RAN, Vodafone

John Baker

SVP Business Development, Mavenir

Rimma Iontel

Chief Architect, TME Technology, Strategy and Execution Office, Red Hat

Timon Sloane

General Manager, Open Networking Foundation