{"id":50,"date":"2025-11-11T06:47:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T06:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oran.eee.upd.edu.ph\/?page_id=50"},"modified":"2025-11-11T06:47:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T06:47:14","slug":"what-is-open-ran","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oran.eee.upd.edu.ph\/?page_id=50","title":{"rendered":"What is Open RAN?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Open RAN<\/strong> is an industry movement to <strong>promote disaggregation and interoperability of radio access networks <\/strong>\u2013 moving away from the closed vendor setup in legacy mobile networks. It follows the following principles:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Disaggregation<\/strong>: Splitting the RAN into Radio Unit (O-RU), Distributed Unit (O-DU), and Centralized Unit (O-CU).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Intelligence<\/strong>: Using intelligence for control and optimization via the RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC)\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Virtualization &amp; Cloudification<\/strong>: Implementing network functions as software on general-purpose hardware across edge, fog, and cloud platforms.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Automation &amp; Orchestration<\/strong>: Algorithms and frameworks to automatically manage and coordinate virtualized network functions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open RAN is an industry movement to promote disaggregation and interoperability of radio access networks \u2013 moving away from the closed vendor setup in legacy mobile networks. It follows the following principles:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-50","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oran.eee.upd.edu.ph\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oran.eee.upd.edu.ph\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oran.eee.upd.edu.ph\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oran.eee.upd.edu.ph\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oran.eee.upd.edu.ph\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oran.eee.upd.edu.ph\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51,"href":"https:\/\/oran.eee.upd.edu.ph\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50\/revisions\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oran.eee.upd.edu.ph\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}