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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. Listeners 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

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Ian C. Wong is director of RF and wireless architecture at VIAVI Solutions. He is cochair of the Test and Integration Focus group in the O-RAN Alliance and a senior member of the IEEE. Ian C. Wong is director of RF and wireless architecture at VIAVI Solutions. He is cochair of the Test and Integration Focus group in the O-RAN Alliance and a senior member of the IEEE. Aditya Chopra is a communication systems engineer with over ten years' experience in wireless standards and transceiver design. Aditya Chopra is a communication systems engineer with over ten years' experience in wireless standards and transceiver design. Sridhar Rajagopal is an SVP and senior fellow at Mavenir Systems, where he leads customer engineering and radio integration for Mavenir's Open RAN products. He has coinvented around fifty issued US patents and is a senior member of IEEE. Sridhar Rajagopal is an SVP and senior fellow at Mavenir Systems, where he leads customer engineering and radio integration for Mavenir's Open RAN products. He has coinvented around fifty issued US patents and is a senior member of IEEE. Rittwik Jana is currently a Telco analytics and automation engineer at Google. He is an industry expert with over twenty-five years of experience in numerous wireless technologies and standards. Rittwik Jana is currently a Telco analytics and automation engineer at Google. He is an industry expert with over twenty-five years of experience in numerous wireless technologies and standards. Brian Troxell is a SAG-AFTRA voice-actor and an actor-actor. He's an owner-producer-director-actor at Sketchworks Comedy, Atlanta's longest running sketch comedy company, and he's also the anchor of their weekly NewsBrake program, which streams on Sketchworks' social media pages. He's performed 200 audiobooks across every genre you can imagine (except porn), and he narrated Audible.com's daily Wall Street Journal Morning Read under the name Alexander Quincy from 2015 until it was unceremoniously cancelled at the end of November 2021. Brian is represented by AMT and can be seen in Hawkeye and the fourth and sixth seasons of Cobra Kai, among other places. He lives in Kennesaw with his two cats, Winston and Malachi.

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