Our latest research explores open RAN business value looking at the detailed benefits and risks of an Open RAN strategy. It’s been less than six months since we published our first report on Open RAN. Yet in that short period, the movement has gained further momentum with new pilot projects, vendor/operator alignments, and multi-CSP MoUs to promote Open RAN principles and diversity in the telecom supply chain. More CSPs and vendors have been keen to stress their Open RAN commitment and credentials. Yet Open RAN is at a delicate stage – well beyond just another a research project, but not yet fully mainstream. Reasonable topics of concern – performance, security, complexity, maturity – are being used by some CSPs and vendors as reasons to proceed with caution. By others, as justification to accelerate investment and redouble the development of solutions, technologies and yes, standards. Is Open RAN a market trend that will simply level off? Or is it on an inexorable rise to become the dominant model for RAN architecture – and procurement? What’s clear is that CSPs should be well informed about the specific benefits that different levels of Open RAN adoption can deliver. Only then can they determine […]