There is an industry consensus that the past year has been a rough one for Open RAN. So said the title for our most recent webinar, where we put the question of progress to a panel of insiders. It was clear that there had been some setbacks, but the trio agreed that this was not simply confined to the Open RAN segment. The webinar featured Gilles Garcia, Senior Director Data Center and Communications Group, at AMD, John Baker, SVP Business Development at Mavenir, and Viraj Abhayawardhana, Director Mobile Access Strategy at Liberty Global. When asked about the progress of the past year, Garcia pushed back on the idea that it had been a rough year for Open RAN, as the…