Fyuz 2023 and 5G America Recap (with Roy Chua of AvidThink)
Channel: neXt Curve
Date: 2023-10-23

In this episode of our neXt Curve's Analyst Corner series, "5G and Beyond", we welcome back Roy Chua, Principal at AvidThink, to talk about his key takes and headlines from Fyuz 2023, the up and coming Open RAN uber event which took place in Madrid, Spain, put on by the Telecom Infra Project (TIP). Leonard Lee of neXt Curve reciprocates by providing Roy some of his key takes from 5G Americas Industry Analyst Conference 2023 which took place in Dallas, TX, the same week as Fyuz.

In this chat, Roy and Leonard Lee, Executive Analyst of neXt Curve discuss:

(00:48) Introducing Roy Chua, Founder & Principal at AvidThink (www.avidthink.com)
(00:58) A little about Fyuz 2023
(02:20) Impressions from Fyuz 2023 and 5G Americas Industry Analyst Conference.
(03:30) Open RAN is esoteric
(05:55) HEADLINE: Ericsson commits to Open RAN 
(06:30) HEADLINE: Vodafone’s 170,000 site Open RAN-ish RFP
(08:05) The murkiness of Open RAN-ishness
(09:36) Open RAN: Multivendor or not? Who cares?
(13:50) Putting the RIC before the horse
(15:19) The Open RAN Squid Game survival technique
(16:52) Private 5G: The new Open RAN hope?
(21:45) Private 5G: The easy-as-WiFi paradox
(26:12) Private 5G: Reliability is king, not latency!
(29:30) Last takes and final thoughts on Fyuz 2023

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