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Open RAN automation 101 Part 1: Automation enablers (Reader Forum)

April 25, 2022

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Open RAN is much more than just an opportunity to diversify vendor supply chains and introduce open standards into networks. It is an opportunity to innovate within what has always been a very hardware-centric and fixed part of the network. Part of that innovation pertains to automation, which can enable operators to move to an IT-based model of operation.

To enable this deployment and maintenance automation in Open RAN, operators must follow the enterprise disaggregation path as seen with data centers. Once hardware and software were disaggregated in the enterprise sector in the 2000s, two similar challenges needed to be addressed:

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