The After Show was broadcast live at the end of Day One of the Open RAN Summit. TelecomTV’s Guy Daniels and Ray Le Maistre were joined by industry guest panellists for this question and answer session. Among the questions raised by our audience were: What is Open RAN's most important objective and have we achieved it yet? What is the most challenging issue encountered in the deployment of Open RAN today? What is the TCO comparison of an Open RAN system vs a similar stack from established vendors? What is Vodafone’s timeline for large scale commercial Open RAN deployment? What considerations, if any, are being made for future 6G compatibility with Open RAN architectures? Who will take the end-to-end responsibility for integration at the installation phase and in the long-run? 

First Broadcast Live: June 2022

Speakers

Aitor Garcia Viñas

E2E Network Strategic Programmes Delivery Manager, Vodafone

Constantine Polychronopoulos

Vice President of 5G and Telco Cloud, Juniper

Francis Haysom

Principal Analyst, Appledore

John Baker

SVP Business Development, Mavenir

Rimma Iontel

Chief Architect, TME Technology, Strategy and Execution Office, Red Hat