Open RAN: The Definitive Guide

A comprehensive survey of Open RAN technology and its ecosystem

In Open RAN: The Definitive Guide, a team of distinguished industry leaders deliver an authoritative guide to all four principles of the Open RAN vision: openness, virtualization, intelligence, and interoperability. Written by the industry experts currently defining the specifications, building the systems, and testing and deploying the networks, the book covers O-RAN architecture, the fronthaul interface, security, cloudification, virtualization, intelligence, certification, badging, and standardization.

This critical reference on Open RAN explains how and why an open and disaggregated, intelligent, and fully virtualized network is the way networks should be designed and deployed moving forward. Readers will also find:

• A thorough introduction from key industry players, including AT&T, Telefonica, Mavenir, VMWare, Google and VIAVI
• Comprehensive explorations of Open X-Haul transport networks and other unique 5G capabilities
• Practical discussions of the four pillars of O-RAN architecture: openness, virtualization, intelligence, and interoperability
• Comprehensive treatments of how smaller vendors can introduce their own services and customize the network

Perfect for engineers, product managers, and marketing professionals in the telecom industry, Open RAN: The Definitive Guide will also benefit graduate students, researchers, and engineers in government agencies with involvement in the wireless and telecom industries.

Ian C. Wong, PhD, is Director of RF and Wireless Architecture at VIAVI Solutions. He is co-chair of the Test and Integration Focus group in the O-RAN Alliance and a Senior Member of the IEEE.

Aditya Chopra, PhD, is a communication systems engineer with over 10 years’ experience in wireless standards and transceiver design.

Sridhar Rajagopal, PhD, is a SVP and Senior Fellow at Mavenir Systems, where he leads customer engineering and radio integration for Mavenir’s Open RAN products. He has co-invented around 50 issued US patents and is a senior member of IEEE.

Rittwik Jana, PhD, is currently a Telco analytics and automation engineer at Google. He is an industry expert with over 25 years of experience in numerous wireless technologies and standards.