Trade Friction, COVID-19 to Speed ORAN Development, Says ABI

The open radio access network market is “rapidly expanding” and expected to near $41 billion in global revenue by 2026, reported ABI Research Thursday. The ORAN opportunity “invites various stakeholders to bring their best in class technologies and hardware/software components to contribute to building a flexible, secure, agile, and multi-vendor interoperable network solution,” said ABI. Trade wars and the COVID-19 pandemic brought “tremendous restrictions” to the telecom supply chain and disrupted the “evolution of new technologies,” it said. These conditions will “accelerate” ORAN’s development and deployment, it said.