At MWC, Mavenir’s experts shared how AI, Open RAN, and 5G monetization are revolutionizing telecommunications. AI is streamlining operations, optimizing network KPIs, and enhancing fraud detection. It’s also driving personalized service recommendations, making telecom more efficient and customer-centric.
On the Open RAN front, advancements in Massive MIMO and RRU deployments are giving operators more flexibility and vendor choice, fostering greater innovation. Meanwhile, 5G monetization is evolving beyond consumers, with enterprises, government, and industrial sectors now driving the next wave of investment. Virtualized RAN is also maturing, enabling interoperability between software and hardware from different vendors. With Mavenir’s expertise in integration, the Open RAN ecosystem is becoming a reality, reducing costs and expanding network capabilities.
Watch the full interview to explore how these technologies are shaping the future of telecom.
Diana Goovaerts:
Brandon, it's so great to be with you here at MWC. One of the big topics here is AI. So how has the AI specifically influenced and shaped the telecommunications industry?
Brandon Larson:
Oh, you're so right. AI is everywhere around, but I think the biggest impact AI has had, it's made us think about how we solve problems in Telco differently. And let me give you some examples. We have to do a lot of manual effort to do things like tune KPIs and networks and try to secure networks and figure out what our customers want. But with AI, we can actually use AI to detect fraud in data patterns. So it can replace what our data analysts are doing. It can actually tune networks of KPIs better than humans can do, just because it can outthink humans. And then we can use it for service assurance. And even if you think Spotify, how it could recommend you a song, we can also use it to recommend services to people that buy services from Telco. So I just think the opportunity's endless for what we could do with AI. And obviously I think AI is going to be everywhere in telecom, but you've got to start somewhere, and that's with Mavenir.
Diana Goovaerts:
So moving on to Open RAN, can you give me an update on the status of Open RAN radios and what the market looks like today?
Job Benson:
Sure. So the Open RAN market has now deployed Massive MIMO radios as well as RRUs. So both 32 and 64-T, 64-R active antenna radios have been deployed and single, dual and triple band macro RRUs have also been deployed.
Diana Goovaerts:
It's so great to be here with you. How is the approach to monetizing 5G revolutionizing the telecom industry?
Dejan Leskarosk:
So it's an exciting time for 5G because right now we're getting the second wave of 5G investments. The initial was consumer, which all the operators did. Right now with 5G monetization, we get enterprises, verticals, mining sector, government investment. So the whole idea behind 5G SA was not consumer, although consumer was the first wave, it was really enabling verticals, enterprises, global IOT. So it's a really exciting time for 5G because finally we're getting the monetization, which was promised by 5G networks.
Diana Goovaerts:
Rick, the whole idea behind virtualized RAN is so that software from one vendor can inter-operate with hardware or software from another vendor. How's that going?
Rick Mostaert:
Actually, it's going quite well. The concept is Open RAN. The idea is to give vendors or operators choices in who they work with to increase innovation and drive the ecosystem for Open RAN. So at Mavenir we have lots of experience integrating our software with different server vendors, different cloud vendors, and also different radios from other companies. And so with that, we have many commercial deployments, integrating our radios with other software vendors or our software with other radio vendors, and making sure that this happens in the industry. And the benefits of this are vendor choice, lower costs. And yeah, there's some issues that we run into sometimes with integration, but at Mavenir we're an expert at that. We've solved a lot of problems to make this work and we've proven it in commercial deployments.