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Unlocking the Potential of Open RAN

Jan 03. 2024
  • Kali Pickens Host, Director, Marketing, Networks Business, Samsung Electronics America

    Kali Pickens

    Host, Director, Marketing, Networks Business, Samsung Electronics America

  • Sanil Ramachandran, Director of Technology, Networks Business, Samsung Electronics America

    Sanil

    Ramachandran, Director of Technology, Networks Business, Samsung Electronics America

Samsung’s Kali Pickens and Sanil Ramachandran discuss how Open RAN fosters innovation, agility, and cost efficiency as well as the industry opinions and approaches to the architecture.

Wireless networks are going through a paradigm shift with the emergence of Open RAN. This new approach to architecting a multi-vendor network fosters innovation, agility, and cost efficiency in deploying and operating 5G networks. More importantly, it serves users better and faster than ever. However, there are mixed opinions in the industry and varied approaches to materializing the vision of Open RAN.

Open RAN represents a paradigm shift in RAN architecture, where the traditional monolithic RAN is disaggregated into smaller subsystems with open interfaces. This open interface enables the network operator to select the best subsystem and integrate it into a true Open RAN network. Open RAN can be realized with both single and multiple vendors. It allows for the flexibility of mixing and matching when there is a need to do so.

 

Samsung is an active participant in the O-RAN Alliance and co-chairs its working groups. Samsung is committed to advancing Open RAN and has made tremendous progress in North America, Europe, and Asia in deploying large-scale commercial Open RAN networks and expects to continue this momentum in the coming years.

 

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Don't Miss These Discussion Topics:

1:00 Open RAN vs. O-RAN
2:00 The difference between single-vendor and multi-vendor Open RAN
2:42 What are the key challenges?
3:54 How does Open RAN differ from vRAN?
4:38 Regulatory and standardization challenges
5:37 Samsung’s contributions to Open RAN
9:47 The future of Open RAN

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