Cybersecurity issues (see separate item) are just one set of challenges facing any new platform, but ones that the Open RAN initiative will need to address quickly and convincingly in order to build on its early momentum. Other challenges have been highlighted in recent weeks, related to the geopolitics of intellectual property, as well as the slow processes of brownfield operators (and even greenfield, in the case of 1&1 of Germany). Such difficulties are inevitable for any new approach, and particularly one with the daunting task of shaking up a long-established and powerful ecosystem at the same time as migrating a traditional architecture to the cloud. But the stakes are high, and Terje Jensen, head of network architecture at Telenor,…