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How close are we to fully-automated Open RAN networks?

August 9, 2022

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Open RAN has been the subject of earnest development for a number of years and has seen large-scale commercial deployment by three major global operators building new networks with significant commitments from many large brownfield CSPs. Reducing TCO through vendor competition, component commoditization and cloud-scale are major investment drivers but there’s also the promise of new types of innovation derived from the RAN Intelligent Controller. As a cloud-based RIC ingest network telemetry, it can provide near-real-time network visibility and optimization capabilities that further the move toward network automation. But how close are we to fully-automated Open RAN networks?

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