Open RAN Handbook 2nd Edition
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In the second edition of their comprehensive Open RAN Handbook, Keysight and Vodafone provide essential guidance for vendors testing the Open Radio Access Network (RAN) software and hardware.
This edition emphasizes the importance of energy efficiency in Open RAN networks and serves as a guide for building sustainable, high-performance networks. It aims to help network operators and vendors optimize energy consumption, benchmark efficiency, and implement best practices to reduce operational costs while improving sustainability.
The handbook builds on insights from Keysight's and Vodafone’s ongoing Open RAN lab testing, Plugfests activities as well as results achieved from demonstrations with technology partners.
The handbook aims to provides a deep dive into:
• Progress in 3GPP and O-RAN ALLIANCE standards related to Open RAN energy-saving features.
• Energy benchmarking methodologies, test scenarios, and setups for Open RAN components, including O-RU, O-DU, O-CU, O-Cloud, RIC, and xApps/rApps.
• Key test results and insights from extensive evaluations conducted from 2022 to 2024.
• Recommendations for advancing industry standards and optimizing Open RAN product implementations.
Keysight and Vodafone are committed to accelerating vendor innovation by expanding the Open RAN ecosystem and promoting competition to lower costs and enhance network sustainability. By sharing these findings, Keysight and Vodafone aim to drive the industry forward, ensuring that Open RAN delivers both technological and environmental benefits.
With this latest publication, Keysight and Vodafone reaffirm their leadership in shaping the future of efficient, open, and sustainable networks.