Private network technology developer Athonet has coined the slogan ‘Bring Your Own RAN’ (BYORAN) to promote both its own offerings for enterprises and Open RAN in general, to allow freedom of choice or cherry-picking in cellular radio equipment. Inspired by the hallowed Bring Your Own Device mantra, Athonet has been seduced by the desire to conflate its acronym with Open RAN and should have called it instead ‘Buy Your Own RAN’, for that is what it the company really urging its enterprise customers to do. That indeed is provided for within Athonet’s product architecture comprising three key components for private 5G or LTE networks, only two of which the firm supplies itself. These are the Edge Node and the Control…