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Ericsson's Paul Challoner – a longtime open RAN representative for the company – has a new remit: managing the vendor's $14 billion deal with AT&T for 5G open RAN equipment.
Ericsson's Paul Challoner has been the vendor's US representative for open radio access network (RAN) technology for years, explaining its evolving approach. Now, he's spearheading the company's new $14 billion open RAN agreement with AT&T as CTO, Global Customer Unit AT&T for Ericsson.
"This is the industrialization of open RAN," Challoner says, explaining that Ericsson is now producing significant amounts of open RAN equipment at its Texas manufacturing facility for US networks including AT&T's.
In this video from Light Reading's Network X Americas, Challoner discusses Ericsson's work to meet AT&T's network buildout requirements and the vendor's new manufacturing plant.
Here are a few topics we cover:
Challoner's new role at Ericsson (00:30)
Update on Ericsson's open RAN agreement with AT&T (01:30)
Ericsson's new agreement with Dell (02:30)
Manufacturing Ericsson's radios for AT&T and others (05:00)
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