Antenna maker CommScope is the latest Open RAN player to join the Evenstar program, which is led by Meta Connectivity and aims to encourage a broad ecosystem of open radio units at many price points to accelerate adoption. Evenstar was announced in February 2020 under the auspices of the Telecom Infra Project (TIP), of which Facebook (now Meta) was a founder. Several products based on its reference designs have been created, including one by Vodafone, which was part of the operator’s trials and RFI process in 2020. CommScope’s focus will be on creating open reference designs for Massive MIMO antenna arrays and filter panels. This will aim to address a key challenge for Open RAN. This is how to support…