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GOAL:
How is O-RAN beneficial?
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O-RAN ADVANTAGE
The advantages of O-RAN (Open RAN) are manifold. An open environment means
an expanded ecosystem, with more vendors providing the building blocks. In O-RAN,
there is more innovation and more options for the operators. They can also add new
services.
Some of the other benefits include more market competition and customer choice,
lower equipment costs, and improved network performance.

Radio Access Network vendors only offer proprietary equipment and network
functions. This is the main reason organizations began developing open RAN
standards to break out of that legacy.
Proprietary products are typically more expensive than generic counterparts.
Because there aren’t third-party RAN elements that can be integrated into a RAN
vendor’s infrastructure, a network operator is stuck with one RAN vendor’s products.
In an open interface, third-party products can communicate with the main RAN
vendor’s infrastructure. Network operators can also opt for the less-expensive third-
party product that operates on generic hardware. As network operators look to
transition to a vRAN architecture for 5G, using open RAN interfaces can reduce the
cost of deploying this new technology. When 5G technology advances and changes,
network administrators working with open standard-based vRANs can easily send
updates to the network infrastructure to accommodate the changes.