AT&T customers take note: AT&T, DT, Facebook back new 5G SD-RAN project

From FierceWireless:

The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) announced the formation of the Software Defined Radio Access Network (SD-RAN) project to create open source software platforms and multi-vendor solutions for mobile 4G and 5G RAN deployments.

It sounds similar but it’s a lot different than SD-WAN, which is software defined wide area networking, although they’re both software driven. The SD-RAN project will focus on building an open source Near Real-Time RAN Intelligent Controller (nRT-RIC) compatible with the architecture developed by the Open RAN (O-RAN) Alliance.

The new SD-RAN project is backed by AT&T, China Mobile, China Unicom, Deutsche Telekom (DT), Facebook, Google, Intel, NTT, Radisys and Sercomm. Some of these same members – AT&T, China Mobile, DT and NTT – were founding members of the O-RAN Alliance, which formed with the combination of the xRAN Forum and C-RAN Alliance in 2018 (PDF).

While the current U.S. administration has cracked down hard on Chinese vendors, most notably Huawei, ONF is not getting flack for having the Chinese operators involved in its efforts, according to Timon Sloane, vice president of marketing and ecosystem of the ONF.

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