Operationalising Open

RAN: Design and deploy

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15th June 2022

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Agenda

1 Introduction 5 mins

2 Open RAN: market landscape 15 mins

3 Panel discussion 40 mins

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 Our speakers today

TIMO JOKIAHO SANDEEP SHARMA DALIA ADIB YANNICK MAYAUD

Chief Technologist, Telecom, VP and Global Head of Director, Consulting Consultant
Media & Entertainment portfolio 5G/RAN/ORAN

Red Hat Tech Mahindra STL Partners STL Partners

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Agenda

1 Introduction 5 mins

2 Open RAN: market landscape 15 mins

3 Panel discussion 40 mins

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What is Open RAN? An umbrella term…
Centralised Virtualised Open

Reduce the amount of equipment that MNOs need to deploy and

maintain in the Radio Access Network for cost and flexibility

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What is Open RAN? …with 3 flavours

Open RAN

1 Cloud RAN (C-RAN) 2 Virtual RAN (vRAN) 3 Open-RAN (O-RAN)

Distributing and centralising Virtualising and containerising Replacing legacy, proprietary
baseband functionality across BBUs as software running on interfaces between BBUs and
different locations generic hardware platforms RRHs with open standards

RRH RRH RRH RRH Base station RRH RRH Base station RRH RRH

Antenna Antenna Antenna Antenna Antenna Antenna Antenna Antenna Antenna Antenna
Vendor 1 Vendor2 Vendor3
Radio Radio Radio Radio Radio Unit
Unit Unit
Radio Unit Radio Unit Radio Unit Radio Unit Radio Unit
Unit Unit

Virtual Virtual
Virtual Vendor2 Virtual
Baseband Baseband Baseban
Baseband and/or.. Baseband d Unit and/or… Baseban
Vendor1
Unit(s) Unit(s) Unit(s)
Unit(s) d Unit(s)

Core network Core network Core network

Internet/PSTN Internet/PSTN Internet/PSTN

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Live deployments overall continue to be driven by 5G core
Total telco cloud deployments by primary purpose, 2018 – 2023

Cloud and NFV infrastructure

Core
Edge and access Includes Open RAN
MANO platforms or components
Other
Residential CPE
SD-WAN
SDN
vCPE – cloud-based
vCPE – hybrid
vCPE – premises-based

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Europe and APAC are driving Open RAN, with vRAN emerging
as a possible preference in North America
Open-RAN and vRAN deployments, 2018 – 2022 Open-RAN and vRAN deployments by region

10 9

6 9 2

4
3
3 3 2 2 2
2 2 2 1

Open-RAN / O-RAN (fully open, disaggregated, virtualised / cloud-native)

© STL Partners | Proprietary and Confidential vRAN (single-vendor/virtualised CU/DU, with open interfaces) 9
Multi-national operators currently have the most
deployments, using selected markets as proof points

Open-RAN / O-RAN
vRAN

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Practical challenges to implementing Open RAN are being
addressed, but it still suffers from hurdles of perception

Practical challenges
Complexity of Lifecycle Open
integration management ecosystem

Hurdles of perception

Cost Speed of Performance &

Security
deployment service quality

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Agenda

1 Introduction 5 mins

2 Open RAN: market landscape 15 mins

3 Panel discussion 40 mins

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 Poll 1: What do you see as the biggest challenges to
Open RAN?
1. Complexity of integration

2. Lifecycle management

3. Cost

4. Speed of deployment

5. Performance (including security)

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Results: Poll 1

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 Poll 2: When do you see the majority of mobile operators
implementing Open RAN in part of their network?

1. 2023

2. 2024

3. 2025

4. 2026

5. 2027+
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Results: poll 2

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