Petr Ledl is VP of Network Trials and Integration Lab and chief architect of the Access Disaggregation program at Deutsche Telekom. Petr’s main responsibility is in future mobile network technologies and related concepts and defining and implementing O-RAN-based disaggregated RAN architecture. Petr has a doctorate in Electrical Engineering from Czech Technical University in Prague.
Based on this power optimization capability, DT and Intel have achieved roughly 30% vRAN CPU power consumption reduction.
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The Open RAN challenges can broadly be categorized into System Integration and Operation Model challenges, per Petr Ledl, Vice President and Head of Network Trials and Integration Lab, Deutsche Telekom.
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Deutsche Telekom introduced a vendor-independent Service Management and Orchestration (SMO) component based on ONAP open source to automate services on all network domains, to manage disaggregated RAN complexity.
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The main learnings from DT’s open and virtualized RAN deployment are related to more responsbility for operators and performance and operational evaluation.
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The key components Deutsche Telekom’s Open RAN Journey include O-RAN town, automation, industry ecosystem, skills development, new operating model, and vendor selection.
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An interview with Petr Ledl, Vice President, Head of Network Trials and Integration Lab, Deutsche Telekom covering DT’s Open RAN Journey and related topics such as Why do we need Open RAN? How do manage the RAN disaggregation complexities? What are Open RAN challenges & Learnings? Global Industry Approach for Open RAN solution adoption.
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