Innovation Martlesham, in association with Tech East, would like to invite you to another Breakfast Networking WEBINAR Event with guest speakers from Net Reply and BT entitled  “A Migration Roadmap to OpenRAN”

ATTENDANCE IS BY REGISTRATION ONLY.

PLEASE REGISTER by contacting jim.milne@innovationmartlesham.com and await further joining instructions.

GUEST SPEAKERS :

Francisco de Carvalho, Head of Disaggregated Network Solutions Strategy, Net Reply
Stefan Draskoci, Open RAN & RIC Specialist, Net Reply
Richard Mackenzie, Distinguished Engineer, RAN Intelligence and Automation, BT Group Plc

Many Service Providers have invested heavily in vertical RAN solutions and network coverage for 5G proceeds at pace.

Whilst OpenRAN promises to deliver vendor agnostic, disaggregated, solutions with open interfaces that promote a wider eco-system of suppliers to deliver reductions in TCO and acceleration in deployment, the technology is far from widely available and proven.

What are the options and how can Service Providers leverage the “best of both”, i.e. a widely deployed Radio Network with the flexibility and power of OpenRAN optimisation techniques?

Points we will address during the Session:

• Overview of Reply – Fran
• OpenRAN Business Drivers, Business Case, Complexities of Systems Integrations, Standards – Richard
• Reducing Complexity with Automation and enabling portable RIC applications, real life examples – Stefan

PERSONAL PROFILE:  Dr. Francisco Araujo de Carvalho, EngD MSc BSc (Hons) CEng MIET
Head of Disaggregated Network Solutions Strategy, Net Reply

Fran is responsible for go to market solutions and partnership strategy across Net Reply, focusing on end-end systems integration and innovations that fulfil market needs. An active member of the Broadband Forum and the Open Networking Foundation, he has leadership roles in both organizations, promoting the synergies between standards and opensource bodies and serving as a member of the Board of Directors.

PERSONAL PROFILE: Richard Mackenzie

Richard is a Distinguished Engineer in Wireless Networks at BT’s Applied Research. His current focus is on developing, trialling and commercialising OpenRAN. He is co-chair of the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) “RAN Intelligence & Automation” OpenRAN sub-project and is also active across the O-RAN Alliance, Small Cell Forum (SCF) and Next Generation Mobile Networks (NGMN).

PERSONAL PROFILE: Stefan Draskoci

Stefan is a Senior Consultant and Engineer, and the O-RAN Lead for Reply in the UK, focused on realising innovative ways in which O-RAN technologies will transform the telco industry. This includes the architecting and development of network optimisation applications (xApps and rApps) based on Cloud Native principles, as well as their integration into the leading containerised RIC platforms and their associated interfaces