O-RAN ALLIANCE aims to reshape Radio Access Network (RAN) deployment toward more intelligent, virtualized, and multi-vendor interposable strategies. RAN RIC will disrupt the status quo and create new opportunities for a wider ecosystem to join this segment of the market by helping operators save Total Cost Ownership and users optimized Quality of Experience . Analysts expect the trend of standard RIC deployment to dominate the market around 2024 and 2025.

A five-step plan will enable Network Service Providers (NSPs) to optimize capital - and operational- expenditure investments to improve subscriber's Quality of Experience (QoE) in strategic and efficient ways.

Massive multiple-in, multiple-out (MIMO) antennas stand ready to deliver on the promise of cost-effective delivery of capacity density in LTE networks now and set the stage for 5G networks to come, ABI Research says in a new report.