Francisco (Paco) Martin Pignatelli

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Francisco Martin - Vodafone Group Head for Open RAN

Francisco (Paco) Martรญn Pignatelli is a Vodafone Executive +22 years of Experience in Mobile. Heยดs worked internationally in US and UK and has great breadth of experience in all Network domains as well as some customer facing positions. Heยดs more recently focused in OPEN RAN, an activity he pioneered in 2016 thatยดs grown to become the most relevant trend in mobile today, with Vodafone as one of the leading promoters.

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An interview with Francisco (Paco) Martรญn, Head of Open RAN for Vodafone Group focusing on Vodafone’s system integration model for Open RAN adoption. What happens if traditional model is applied to OPEN RAN system integration? How system integration can be done in lab? What is the proposed lab model? What are the benefits? How to do remote system integration? How to manage network operations?

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