TelecomTalk Interviews: Mavenir Says 5G a Key Bet for Growth of ORAN in India

India is very close to getting its first commercial 5G network. There’s no saying which telco would be the first to launch it, but with the arrival of 5G, the business landscape of India will change forever.

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Sanjay Raina, Vice President, Sales for India & South Asia, Mavenir, told TelecomTalk that 5G is not just a connectivity story that we had in the past.
“4G, for example, was, you know, kind of helping YouTubers and the other form of communication which needed those kinds of speeds. But 5G comes with a very different paradigm,” said Raina.

Raina also talked about how 5G would benefit multiple industries, including agriculture, manufacturing, and more. He also shared multiple use-cases that would be enabled for different industry verticals once 5G arrives (watch the video interview on YouTube to get the full conversation).

Q. How is Mavenir’s Cloud-Native Open RAN Approach Changing the Traditional Telecom Market?

The first paradigm shift was when the networks were made virtual, but the second we progressed further, there were certain challenges in the VM-based implementation of the cloud. So, we moved to the cloud-native.

The cloud-native basically brings cost efficiency, more granularity in terms of service level quality, and better management of the application and the other hardware.

There’s an element of micro-services which comes into play wherein you can just choose a container environment, and if there’s any change to be done on any application, only that container would be picked up, and the rest will keep on moving.