Open RAN and 5G - Audience Q&A (LIVE REPLAY)

Featuring:
Cristina Rodriguez, Vice President, Data Platforms Group, General Manager, Wireless Access Network Division, Intel Corporation
David Hughes, Senior Vice President, Aruba WAN Business & Founder, Silver Peak
Geetha Ram, Global Head of Telco Solution Incubations, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Richard Band, WW Head of Mobile Core and 5G for Communications & Media Solutions, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Will Townsend, Senior Analyst, Networking Practice, Moor Insights & Strategy
Moderator: Guy Daniels, Director of Content, TelecomTV

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On-demand replay of the live audience Q&A during the TelecomTV Strategic Outlook Realize the full potential of Open RAN and 5G event.

Among the questions asked by the audience:

  • When do we expect that we’ll start to see real commercial deployments of 5G in Standalone Mode?
  • Are operators still a little hesitant in adopting both vRAN and OpenRAN, and if so, what should be done to scale up adoption?
  • How do we define vRAN vs Open RAN? Does the industry fully understands the difference?
  • For 5G to work better, is it necessary to adopt CNFs (cloud native network functions) and if so what type of technology would be involved and could CNFs run on a virtual environment or directly on Bare Metal?
  • What role will systems integrators play in OpenRAN and 5G, and what capabilities should they have?
  • As networks move to virtualised, multi-vendor, disaggregated new world, how do operational tools like OSS keep up with this change, as traditionally they are vendor specific solutions?

Featuring:

  • Geetha Ram, Global Head of Telco Solution Incubations, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  • Cristina Rodriguez, Vice President, Data Platforms Group, General Manager, Wireless Access Network Division, Intel Corporation
  • David Hughes, Senior Vice President, Aruba WAN Business & Founder of Silver Peak
  • Richard Band, WW Head of Mobile Core and 5G for Communications & Media Solutions, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  • Will Townsend, Senior Analyst, Networking Practice, Moor Insights & Strategy

Recorded LIVE February 2021 using TelecomTV’s Smart Studio service

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