The Open vRAN movement started with some smaller waves and the anticipation of a larger wave to form. It was driven by a belief that the fundamental way that mobile networks have been built for decades needed to evolve and improve. Legacy architectures, that were useful in the past, have outlived their utility and are holding operators back. Changes are required to enable new services, new operational models, and fundamentally better economics. Operators started asking about it, organizations were formed to investigate it, and key innovators are now executing on it.

We formed and announced Open vRAN at Mobile World Congress 2018. Conversations with key network operator customers, as well as our partners, made it apparent that something needed to change and they thought we could help. Since then, it