Open RAN evangelists are keen to extoll the benefits of their favored network architecture, typically this evolves around the geopolitical and economic opportunities created by a larger pool of equipment vendors, but the energy saving properties of Open RAN systems is not far behind as a secondary benefit. A recent paper by a group of such preachers examines the energy-savings capabilities with regards to traffic steering. The study, by researchers from Juniper Networks, Vodafone, Keysight Technologies, AirHop Communications, and Rimedo Labs used Rimedo Labs’ Traffic Steering xApp (TS-App) and AirHop’s Energy Saving rApp (ES-rApp), which were deployed in the Juniper Networks’ Ran Intelligent Controller (RIC). It also used Keysight’s RICtest equipment and anonymized data from Vodafone. The RIC removes the…