Open RAN: Competitive Strategies for Challenger Systems Integrators

"Challenger Open RAN integrators face substantial competition from the dominant incumbent vendor integrators, and so urgently need to establish their differentiation."

This report evaluates and offers solutions for the challenges faced by challenger integrators in Open RAN. It demonstrates the opportunities that are available to a range of types of systems integrators, including challenger vendor integrators, consulting and systems integration companies, network specialist systems integrators, cloud providers and network operators.

The report provides recommendations to these challenger integrators relating to how they can establish a competitive position against incumbent vendors. Additionally, it provides market forecasts by integrator and service type.

Questions answered in this report:

• What are the major challenges facing challenger integrators, and how can these be prepared for?
• How can challenger integrators remain competitive against the dominant position of incumbent vendors?
• What service opportunities are open to different types of challenger integrators?
• What are the critical challenges facing operators that challenger integrators should aim to solve?