Sparring Partners | How open is the future RAN?

Expectations for Open RAN deployments are high, but what will Open RAN deployments look like? How open will the RAN become as disaggregation kicks in? Open RAN gives operators flexibility and control over their RAN: how will they use them?

Peter Claydon, President at Picocom, and Monica Paolini, Principal, Senza Fili, talked about what the future RAN will look like.

Topics they covered:

• How far will disaggregation go?
• Will Open RAN work for small cells?
• Will silicon for Open RAN be optimized, accelerated, or off-the-shelf? Will it be disaggregated?
• When will Open RAN be ready for M-MIMO?
• Is Open RAN going to be power efficient?