[Whitepaper] 5G Open RAN Ecosystem

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NTT DOCOMO recently released a white paper on the 5G Open RAN Ecosystem. It discusses the aims and benefits of an Open RAN Ecosystem, and introduces examples of applications enabled by this technology, based on DOCOMO’s unique perspective as the world’s first company to operate a 5G Open RAN. This whitepaper discusses the challenges of deploying Open RAN, especially vRAN, including the challenge of flexibly combining base stations and software of various different vendors. It also covers target performance indicators for Open RAN, such as the tripling of both transmission speed and the number of cells compared with current vRAN performance, and reducing power consumption by at least half.

7 July 2021 / Telecom White Papers / By Ray Sharma