Open RAN technology vendors are harvesting low hanging fruit among indoor enterprise networks before stretching towards more complex and challenging outdoor environments. US network infrastructure vendor CommScope is the latest to add weight to this view, over three years after AT&T first expressed similar sentiments as it embarked on its Open RAN journey. CommScope is motivated by the availability of its indoor Open RAN package, launched in February, coinciding with a significant rise in rate of indoor 5G deployment, according to its Vice President of Engineering Luigi Tarlazzi. Speaking at the Open RAN Global Forum a few weeks ago, Tarlazzi suggested that Open RAN was easier to justify and deploy indoors because it was often essentially a greenfield environment, insulated…