An O-RAN Alliance industry event will kick off MWC activities on Monday February 25th at 6:00pm, hosted by Deutsche Telekom on its stage in Hall 3. Throughout the show, O-RAN Alliance members will showcase six strategic proof-of-concept demos in several member booths covering four key themes: Intelligent RAN Control, Open Interfaces, RAN Virtualization and Whitebox.
Read MoreGabriel Brown spoke with O-RAN Alliance operators to find out how Open RAN initiatives can accelerate deployment of innovative radio technology in mobile networks.
Read MoreThe ORAN Alliance, co-founded by AT&T, China Mobile, Deutsche Telekom, NTT DOCOMO, and Orange, combines and extends the efforts of the C-RAN Alliance and xRAN Forum into a single, global, operator lead effort. The ORAN Alliance will drive the next generation RAN to new levels of openness, efficiency, flexibility, and intelligence using reference designs, open interfaces, virtualization, open source and whitebox elements by leading the industry towards open, inter-operable interfaces and RAN virtualization.
This will empower future networks with deeply imbedded intelligence, much higher efficiency, lower costs, great agility and flexibility, and zero-touch automation.
The ORAN Alliance welcomes broad membership and active contribution from all interested parties across the information, communications, and data technology industries.
“ The O-RAN Alliance was created to accelerate the delivery of products that support a common, open architecture and standardized interfaces that we, as operators, view as the foundation of our next-generation wireless infrastructure, while ensuring a broad community of suppliers driven by innovation and open market competition. ”
“ Our industry is approaching an inflection point, where increasing infrastructure virtualization will combine with embedded intelligence to deliver more agile services and advanced capabilities to our customers. The O-RAN Alliance is at the forefront of defining the next generation RAN architecture for this transformation. ”
“ RAN infrastucture that supports O-RAN Alliance specifications, combined with increasing RAN virtualization and data-driven intelligence, will allow carriers to reduce complexity, innovate more quickly and significantly reduce deployment and operational costs ”
