120 M$ già nel 2023 a livello worldwide per il mercato dei RIC non è poco
https://www.telecomtv.com/content/open-ran/2023-will-be-a-crunch-year-for-open-ran-46280/
It calls out RIC and xApp/rApp developments in North America by AT&T (trials of interference management, traffic steering and energy savings-related xApps across a 200-cell site cluster in New Jersey) and Dish Wireless (with VMware). In Europe, it notes efforts by Vodafone (working with a host of tech partners including VMware, Cohere, Capgemini, Juniper Networks and Parallel Wireless), Deutsche Telekom (with VMware, Intel and the Open Networking Foundation), Telefónica (with Nokia and NEC) and BT, which kicked off its RIC trials with Nokia in Hull earlier this year and is now expanding that to Leeds. And in Asia it highlights Rakuten Mobile’s integration of Juniper’s RIC platform, NTT Docomo’s work with NEC (and its subsidiary Netcracker), KDDI’s collaboration with Samsung, and China Mobile’s work with multiple partners.
The SNS Telecom & IT team “estimates that global spending on RIC platforms, xApps and rApps will reach $120m in 2023 as initial implementations move from field trials to production-grade deployments” and then grow significantly in the following years to be worth $600m per year by the end of 2025.
Source: SNS Telecom & IT, SON (Self-Organizing Networks) in the 5G & Open RAN Era: 2022 – 2030 – Opportunities, Challenges, Strategies & Forecasts.