For Open RAN to succeed, it must find a way to reconcile the additional complexity that it introduces with mobile operators’ need for a manageable number of options, and for end-to-end management – especially of performance. These remain strong selling points for providers of conventional RAN.

The emergence of ecosystems of vendors is a key sign that the Open RAN community is responding to this challenge. In this extensive market outlook we review what considerations are shaping these ecosystems, how different ecosystems emphasize different aspects of the RAN (and Open RAN) challenge, and call out the most notable examples in market today – anchored by the likes of NTT, NEC, Rakuten Symphony, Samsung, Nokia, Mavenir, Dell, Intel, AWS, Azure.

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