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North America Leads Move to Open RAN: Dell'Oro

The move to open radio access networks continues to see mixed results, Dell’Oro Group said Thursday. North America is expected to lead the shift to ORAN and deployment is picking up in Europe after a slow start, it said in…

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a report. “Despite ongoing challenges, most operators will gradually incorporate more openness, virtualization, intelligence, and automation into their RAN roadmaps,” Dell’Oro said. “Open RAN is happening, but this vision that Open RAN will significantly change the vendor dynamics is fading,” said Stefan Pongratz, Dell’Oro vice president-RAN market research: With most of the leading RAN suppliers “committed to the latest O-RAN fronthaul interfaces, the question now is more about the timing and the adoption curve for the various RAN segments.”