According to Mavenir Senior Vice President of Business Development John Baker, there is still significant confusion about what Open RAN really means. In an effort to clear up the misunderstanding, he participated in the 2022 Open RAN Global Forum where he discussed the three essential RAN transformations that are emerging: open fronthaul, disaggregated Open vRAN and Open Ran in the cloud.
“Open RAN is only about the interfaces between the elements; it is not about the interfaces within the products … The ecosystem at this point has not gotten into defining the open interfaces within the product,” he clarified, further explaining that deploying Open RAN in different environments and putting the Distributed Unit (DU) and Centralized Unit (CU) in different locations within the network will introduce different and new use cases.
