Five Wireless Carriers Form Global Open Radio Access Network Alliance

AT&T, China Mobile, Deutsche Telekom, NTT DoCoMo and Orange formed the Open Radio Access Network Alliance, a “carrier-led effort to drive new levels of openness in the radio access network of next generation wireless systems.” ORAN combines the C-RAN Alliance and the xRAN Forum, the companies said. It's “committed to evolving radio access networks -- making them more open and smarter,” they said Tuesday. “Real-time analytics that drive embedded machine learning systems and artificial intelligence back end modules will empower network intelligence.”