China Mobile, GSMA and Huawei launch OpenAN project

China Mobile, the GSMA, Huawei and other partners launched the open-source OpenAN project to support collaboration and interoperability between operations and maintenance agents in autonomous networks.

TL;DR

• China Mobile, the GSMA, Huawei and other partners launched OpenAN.
• OpenAN is an open-source project for operations and maintenance agent collaboration.
• The project targets autonomous networks and aims to support evolution to Level 4 autonomy.

China Mobile, the GSMA, Huawei and other partners officially launched OpenAN, an open-source project focused on collaboration and interoperability between operations and maintenance agents in autonomous networks.

OpenAN is intended to let operations and maintenance agents work together across autonomous network environments. The project’s stated goal is to improve interoperability between those agents.

The partners said OpenAN is designed to help autonomous networks evolve to Level 4 autonomy. The source did not provide a launch date, technical specification details, or a full partner list in the excerpt provided.

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• What is the OpenAN project launched by China Mobile, the GSMA and Huawei?
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