RE: 2021, the pivotal year for Ethernity14 May 2021 21:24
Lots of wrong assumptions in the light reading piece. This bit is quite right
"After begging authorities for money, Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica, Telecom Italia (whose friends call it TIM) and Vodafone are presenting their equipment makers and software companies with a checklist of requirements. It is a technical job spec for open RAN"
He then goes on to suggest being open is using two monolithic providers together.
It will absolutely be the case that some will bin their 2 year old systems. They will when they can't scale them to the needs, can't move and relocate, can't set up temporary capacity on a fixed network.
OpenRAN is coming, one way or another in will be the only solution.