30% power-saving potential based on the vRAN deployment in DT Bonn Lab
Based on this power optimization capability, DT and Intel have achieved roughly 30% vRAN CPU power consumption reduction.
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What are the Open RAN’s main challenges? | Deutsche Telekom’s Perspective
The Open RAN challenges can broadly be categorized into System Integration and Operation Model challenges, per Petr Ledl, Vice President ...
How DT is managing disaggregated RAN complexity with ONAP-based SMO? What are the priority focus areas?
Deutsche Telekom introduced a vendor-independent Service Management and Orchestration (SMO) component based on ONAP open source to automate services on ...
What are DT’s learnings from open and virtualized RAN deployment at NBB, Germany?
The main learnings from DT's open and virtualized RAN deployment are related to more responsbility for operators and performance and ...
What are the key components of Deutsche Telekom’s Open RAN Journey?
The key components Deutsche Telekom's Open RAN Journey include O-RAN town, automation, industry ecosystem, skills development, new operating model, and ...
As operators prep next-gen network deployment strategies. What skillsets must be honed? What mindset must be adopted?
New Mindset The most important aspect of the change process that Telecom has to undergo is adopting a completely new ...
What has Rakuten Symphony learned about deploying Open RAN at scale?
Do you believe this can benefit any operator considering the technology? As the center of gravity moves from hardware to ...
Can standards play a role in helping hesitant operators establish a comfort-level with Open RAN?
Standards are important, but should not slow down the progress Standards are highly useful inside the telecom industry because they ...
We are seeing some Open RAN vendors, including Rakuten Symphony, come to market with an end-to-end approach. Does this truly meet the definition of open?
The definition of open is not a religious statement about maximizing the number of different vendors we can have. It’s ...
There is a lot of hype around Open RAN right now, largely stoked by vendors shouting about the many benefits it delivers.
In Rakuten Symphony’s estimation, are operators buying the hype? Hype is not productive in any context. Neither is saying that ...
Some see what Rakuten Mobile achieved with Open RAN as a special case that can’t be easily repeated, especially in brownfield deployments. Do they have a point?
Greenfield: A common conversation is that Open RAN is only applicable in completely new builds and not to existing operations ...
When will we know whether Rakuten Mobile’s Open RAN strategy has been a success and an indicator of Open RAN maturity?
Operationally, we have already seen success in the accelerated rollout of 275,000 cells with very few people operating the network. ...
How did Rakuten Mobile know Open RAN was ready before going all-in for its ambitious network buildout in Japan?
Rakuten Mobile did not know that Open RAN was ready when it started its journey in 2018. The important message ...
