ORAN Alone Not Enough to Improve Networks: Rakuten
Open radio access networks on their own won’t make a network faster, just as new running shoes alone won’t make someone a faster runner, Geoff Hollingworth, chief marketing officer at Rakuten Symphony, said in a Tuesday blog. ORAN by itself…
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“doesn’t make you more efficient, quicker or cost-effective,” Hollingworth said: ORAN “on its own is potentially a bad idea if operations and procurement aren’t redesigned to support the changes it causes. Operations need to manage disaggregated supply chains at both a software functional level and a hardware platform level, and dynamically deploy the radio software as efficiently as possible. This is equivalent to the training required before putting on new shoes and running a race.”