redhat.com Whitepaper Cloud-native platform for open RAN facebook.com/redhatinc @RedHat linkedin.com/company/red-hat Executive summary The open radio access network (RAN) movement has been welcomed as an essential factor in helping restore supply chain diversity in consolidated markets where choice of vendors has eroded over the last decade. However, even the very largest mobile network operators are daunted by the complicated prospect of introducing new vendors. Decades of accumulated investment in tools and processes are intertwined with the proprietary products of their incumbent RAN vendors. Meanwhile, there are other incentives for change coming from multiple areas. The advent of new container-based, cloud-native architectures presents operators with opportunity and steep lear

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