O-RAN Alliance Releases First Software Code
Summary
“The first release of the O-RAN Software Community exemplifies the progress weve made as an industry, and AT&T is proud to be a member and active contributor of this effort," said Andre Fuetsch, Chairman of the O-RAN Alliance, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of AT&T. The first release is the start of the project and we expect the contributions and functionality to continue as we grow the community of contributors and deliver additional releases in the future.” “At Nokia we are strong proponents of O-RAN’s core principles of intelligence and openness and believe it will motivate collaboration and drive innovative new services in the industry,” said Michael Clever, Head of Cloud RAN Solutions at Nokia. Future RANs will be built on a foundation of virtualized network elements, white-box hardware and standardized interoperable interfaces that fully embrace O-RAN’s core principles of intelligence and openness. Its mission is to provide a software solution to support the implementation of an open and intelligent Radio Access Network (RAN), compliant with the O-RAN Alliance specifications. The Linux Foundations methodology focuses on leveraging best practices and addressing the needs of contributors, users and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration.