According to the latest report published by Dell’Oro Group, the Open RAN movement (radio access networks) has grown in the third quarter of this year more than was initially expected.
95% of this growth is represented by Asia Pacific and North America regions, especially the latter, with a growth and acceptance rate of more than 80%. And this is all due to non-massive macro MIMO and large-scale massive MIMO implementations.
The situation repeated during the first three quarters has been identical. Samsung, Fujitsu, NEC and Mavenir have led the sector with the most total revenue. The open standard Open RAN consolidates in the telecommunications industry as an agile and representative alternative. The evolution is such that the data from the last Report is surprising, since it determines that the strength of said growth has given it a favorable position and reached double the income than during the same period of 2021.
The report leaves us revealing data, such as the adoption of Open RAN is having a very limited impact on the RAN market, but with very good short-term growth prospects, since it is expected that by 2023, this technology will represent between 6% and 10% of the entire RAN market. However, this year’s growth rates will ease in the coming quarters.
Stefan PongratzDell’Oro Group’s vice president, says that while Open RAN business revenues continue to rise surprisingly in the midst of the economic and price crisis, the message being communicated has not changed and remains mixed.
However, experts, such as Pongratz, are not very sure about how the adoption of this Open RAN technology will be on a larger scale, since classic RAN vendors are integrating it at very different rates.
Similarly, Pongratz argues in favor of Open RAN: “It is more important than ever to understand how this movement is impacting the dynamics between established and new vendors.”
data for the second quarter
In the same study published by the Dell’Oro Group at the conclusion of the first semesterit was determined that O-RAN and Open RAN and baseband revenue grew significantly, especially in North America, quadrupling revenue in the same period last year.
The study on the influence of Open RAN closed showing that represented just over 5% of the entire RAN marketalthough predicting that in the future it will develop and expand much more in the telecommunications sector.
The future is set by Open Ran
Technologies applied to telecommunications, OpenRAN Y vRAN, are gaining weight in the world market. In fact, Open RAN is expected to accumulate revenues of almost 20,000 million dollarsor what is the same, 15% of the total income of RAN by 2026.
The demand for open radio networks has also increased their forecasts. To this is added the evolution at the same rate as the greenfields and the first users of brownfield, who are aggressively implementing Open RAN. “The remaining brownfields, which also make up the majority of the market, are being more cautious about making this transition,” Pongratz says.
Looking ahead to the coming years, it is expected that both Asia Pacific and North America will be the leading regions, coming mainly from the macro implementations of Open RAN, which will represent more than 90% of the whole market.
And it is that RAN technologies based on open standards are having more and more weight among the main operators with the aim of stimulate their competitiveness and considerably reduce prices.
