Fujitsu exec reportedly says Open RAN struggles to compete with kits by Nokia, Ericsson

NEW DELHI: The Open Radio Access Network architecture struggles to compete with the kits offered by bigger vendors such as Finland’s Nokia and Swedish Ericsson, but the adoption of the open architecture is expected to grow from 2025 onwards, a senior executive of Japan’s Fujitsu told US-based telecom publication Light Reading.

“We have existing players like Ericsson and Nokia who offer their own proprietary hardware and we’re not able to prove the benefits that vRAN (virtualized RAN) can bring against those players,” Masaki Taniguchi, head of Fujitsu’s mobile system business unit, was quoted as saying in the report.