A movement in the wireless industry that advocates for hardware and software disaggregation, openness, and interoperability in RAN architectures, and acts towards the standardization of open interfaces to allow multi-vendor RAN environments. Open RAN is also a RAN reference architecture that leverages industry-wide standards, defined by organizations such as the O-RAN Alliance, 3GPP, IEEE, and others, to support the interoperability between different software and hardware vendors. It is particularly important for C-RAN architectures, and heavily accelerated by RAN virtualization, given the disaggregation and multiplication of vendors that come with it.
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