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ONS News Highlights: White Box, 5G and More

President of AT&T Labs and CTO, Andre Fuetsch, gave a keynote at the Open Networking Summit providing insights about AT&T’s white box site strategy and the company’s goal of reaching a nationwide 5G network by 2020. The O-RAN Alliance cemented its collaboration with the Linux Foundation, by creating the O-RAN Software Community. And, AT&T and Ericsson collaborated to deploy the world’s first lifecycle management based on ONAP software for network slices.

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The intersection of software-defined networking (SDN), the advent of 5G and the rapid progress in artificial intelligence (AI) offers tremendous opportunities for innovative services such as Smart Cities, IoT, AR/VR. The 5G network is expected to support billions of devices, highly heterogeneous traffic with a wide range of performance attributes, and a diverse set of demanding applications. Today’s radio access network (RAN) automation is limited and the future RAN network will rely on three core pillars: data-powered integrated analytics framework, an open management and optimization platform enabled by ONAP and O-RAN and intelligent analytics built upon rich dataset on an open platform.

AT&T Labs is developing innovative software solutions to automate the planning, engineering and operations of that network and the realization of this vision will offer an unmatched competitive advantage.