Mr .Li Zhengmao, EVP of China Mobile said, “ORAN fully reflects our concept of communication 4.0, which requires the integration development of ITCT. It is fully consistent with CRAN that we are leadingimplementing,is a concrete extension of the greensoftware of wireless communications. In the future, ORAN will enable a standardgeneralized wireless network that is of open-sourceintelligence, dramatically reducing network construction costsoperational complexity.”

Co-founded by AT&T, China Mobile, Deutsche Telekom, NTT DOCOMOOrange, the world-wide ORAN Alliance will drive the next generation RAN to new, levels of openness, efficiency, flexibility,intelligence using reference designs, open interfaces, virtualization, open sourcewhite-box elements with the following principles:
• Leading the industry towards open, interoperable interfaces, RAN virtualization,big data enabled RAN intelligence.
• Maximizing the use of common-off-the-shelf hardware while minimizing the use of vendor proprietary hardware.
• Specifying APlsinterfaces, driving standards to adopt them,exploring open source where appropriate.
This will empower future networks with deeply imbedded intelligence, much higher efficiency, lower costs, great agilityflexibility,zero-touch automation.
The ORAN Alliance welcomes broad participationactive contribution from all interested parties across the information, communications,data technology industries.