AT&T, China Mobile, Deutsche Telekom, NTT DOCOMO, and Orange announced the creation of the ORAN Alliance, a world-wide, carrier-led effort to drive new levels of openness and virtualization in the radio access network of next generation wireless systems.
That is one more example of efforts underway that suggest the cost of network infrastructure is going to keep dropping. That is important as some fear the costs of 5G, for example, will skyrocket.
But the ORAN Alliance efforts are one example of what is happening to drive infrastructure costs to new and lower levels.
“Technologies from open source and open whitebox network elements will be important software and hardware components of these reference designs,” the group says.
Open, interoperable interfaces, RAN virtualization, and big data enabled RAN intelligence are among the areas of work.
ORAN Alliance also will attempt to maximize the use of common-off-the-shelf hardware and merchant silicon, while minimizing proprietary hardware.
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