Athonet urges enterprises to bring their own RAN Private network specialist Athonet wants to extend the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) mantra to provision of RANs for private enterprise 5G and LTE networks. Under the banner of ‘bring your own RAN’ (BYORAN), the company has introduced a network management option enabling customers to select from a portfolio of radio products according to application mix in their edge environments. The acronym, deliberately conflated with Open RAN, is designed to position Athonet as technology-agnostic, able to assist enterprises with deployment of diverse RAN products and encourage them to look wider than legacy LTE and 5G RAN providers. It is also aligned with Nokia’s message that the real intelligence of private networks resides in the core, not the radio. …