British Telecom (BT) and Nokia on Wednesday announced a new Open RAN trial in the city of Hull. BT will install Nokia’s RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) across a number of sites. The goal of the project: to optimize and scale Open RAN network performance under controlled real world conditions.
BT said the RIC trial is part of an ongoing process to shepherd Open RAN into a mature and scalable option for network optimization. Chris Simcoe, BT’s Director of Network Applications Architecture, underscored the importance of open and interoperable architecture in the RIC in an interview with RCR Wireless News.
