Paul Miller, Wind River (00:00):
We're moving completely towards a software defined universe for telecommunication networks. All the way from the core to the edge. We're seeing at scale and benefits that were anticipated from Open ran. Now, at the same time, there are difficulties We see competition against traditional ran, incumbent players, resistive to move to the cloud-based architectures that open ran drives. And so there's a bit of a battle still going on and slower than anticipated market adoption in some areas than what you think you'd see from moving to cloud and software. We're finally at a point in the technology, the vendor maturity, the support, the services that people can bring to bear, where any service provider globally can take this technology and then deploy it and it will work, right, and it will work very quickly and drive TCO down for them and give them much more flexibility in their network.

(00:49):
6G out of the box will be fully virtualized, and so we see AI kind of becoming pervasive from Edge ai, the fire edge of the network, all the way to the core for operations and maintenance functions. And so if you have deployed this with Open ran that allows you to deploy new monetization applications to the edge of your network, create more revenue from things such as drones or automobiles or private 5G and robotics Open Ran is kind of the gateway drug that gets you into a software-defined universe that enables you to generate significantly more revenue on your 5G network. So everything from back office, telco Core to Far Edge is now looking to transform. I think we're only at the very beginning of what AI is capable of providing for a service provider, for network automation and cloud technology. It's really, AI is a transformation that's bringing power tools to everybody no matter what your job is.