IBM’s Red Hat subsidiary now has over 250 engineers dedicated to its Open RAN efforts, and has invested about $25m to date in development for the platform. The firm said it is easing deployment for operators by offering a “bridge for customers to embrace the Open RAN movement”. This bridge consists of an open, horizontal, cloud-native software platform that has been pre-integrated with technologies from multiple hardware and software vendors. Red Hat has partnered with Altiostar, Ericsson, Intel, Mavenir, Nokia, Samsung and others to create its framework, which will, of course, encourage operators to adopt the IBM unit’s Kubernetes-based Open Shift platform, which includes containers and microservices for core, RAN and edge computing workloads. Azhar Sayeed, Red Hat’s senior director…