The operator interest in open RAN solutions, and willingness to invest in trials, will open new doors for a variety of smaller vendors which have been showing interesting solutions over the years, but have been confined to a small cell market which grew more slowly than most had expected. One such supplier is Belgium’s Accelleran, which has been developing a dyamically reconfigurable RAN platform based on ORAN interfaces. Accelleran’s vRAN architecture centers on a virtualized controller called dRAX Open Interface RAN Intelligence, which supports network functions in a cloud-native, microservices-based environment. The leap from a virtualized to a fully cloud-native environment, with all the flexibility and reconfigurability that brings, is still in the future for most operators, but at least…