Comarch, a leading OSS and BSS vendor, has become the newest member of the O-RAN Alliance - a consortium dedicated to promoting a software-based, extensible radio access network and to standardizing critical elements of the O-RAN Alliance architecture.
The O-RAN architecture helps transform today’s static, highly-proprietary RAN infrastructure into an extensible, software-based service delivery platform capable of rapidly responding to changing user, application and business needs.
With over 20 years of experience in the telecommunications industry, providing OSS and BSS solutions to mobile network operators, Comarch has always focused on managing multi-vendor networks in RAN, IP/TX and CORE networks. Historically, that meant integrating with a wide variety of proprietary interfaces, complicating the leverage of network functions in automation use cases. This was especially true in RAN, a domain typically dominated by siloed vendor solutions, Radio access network functions were not easily accessible through open interfaces. Open-RAN is a 360-degree change in that approach.
Comarch contribution to O-RAN focuses on leveraging the architecture by making sure that interoperability and interfaces are guaranteed through work on end to end use cases in the domain of orchestration and automation of RAN services and functions, self-healing and self-optimization.
Michał Mędrala, Head of OSS Consulting at Comarch
Comarch strongly believes in the future of open RAN architectures and we are glad to be taking an active part in creating them. Joining the O-RAN Alliance is just another step and a great extension to the actions we are already taking in terms of driving innovations and openness in the industry.
