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Industrialized Open RAN: Scale and Programmability [Analyst Note]

To make open RAN truly viable at scale on a sustainable basis requires the ecosystem to industrialize its design, deployment, and operation.

Gabriel Brown,Senior Principal Analyst, Omdia

October 8, 2024

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In in this Analyst Note, Heavy Reading identifies how programmable open RAN builds a link between efficient networks and service innovation.

Find out more from Gabriel Brown, Senior Principal Analyst – Mobile Networks, Heavy Reading.

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About the Author

Gabriel Brown

Gabriel Brown

Senior Principal Analyst, Omdia

Gabriel leads mobile network research for Heavy Reading. His coverage includes system architecture, RAN, core, and service-layer platforms. Key research topics include 5G, open RAN, mobile core, and the application of cloud technologies to wireless networking.

Gabriel has more than 20 years' experience as a mobile network analyst. Prior to joining Heavy Reading, he was chief analyst for Light Reading's Insider research service; before that, he was editor of IP Wireline and Wireless Week at London's Euromoney Institutional Investor.

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