Most commercial deployments based around emerging open RAN architectures are in small cell networks, which are often in greenfield environments and can be deployed at limited scale, at far lower risk than a main macro network. These early roll-outs will provide valuable lessons about how open architectures work in practice and how they compare, in performance terms, with traditional networks. At the Telecom Infra Project Summit in London this autumn, Parallel Wireless gained a significant profile boost when it was selected as one of the vendors which best met the scope of an RFI (request for information) from the TIP’s OpenRAN project group. The aim of the process was to identify and highlight suppliers which might be well positioned to…