'Reduced Interest' in ORAN Risks Its Delay Before Reaching ‘Scale’: ABI
Open radio access network installations will increase to 22.5 million globally in 2026 from 1.4 million in 2021, projected ABI Research Tuesday. ORAN revenue won't match that of “traditional” RAN but will slowly increase throughout the forecast period, it said.…
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“Considerable vendor resistance” due to integration and technology development issues risks delaying or even killing ORAN momentum “before it reaches a large scale,” said ABI. The industry is now cognizant that ORAN “will still need years of development before it can match large vendor performance and cost efficiency,” it said. That translated into “reduced interest” in ORAN in early 2022, it said.