Of the big three network infrastructure vendors, Nokia has been the most adaptive in regard to Open RAN while Ericsson, an active member of the O-RAN Alliance, is also making product and positioning tweaks to be ready to address operators’ needs around RAN disaggregation. Huawei, on the other hand, hasn’t followed course and this week in a press briefing following the Chinese ICT giant’s annual analyst day event, Carrier Business Group CTO Paul Scanlan expanded on why he sees Open RAN as not ready to meet the needs of 5G.
