[] The talk is on “Cloud RAN and the Transformation of the Radio Access Network” and it will cover the following topics: – Cloud RAN Basics – The general concept of virtualizing the RAN – Industry Trends – Things like Cloud RAN market share and telco commitments, hardware and cloud platform players, and so on. – Transformation of RAN – Areas where the traditional RAN is transforming and how Cloud RAN is a part of that. – Things like O-RAN, automation, AI RAN, 6G. – Challenges – Historical, current, and and future challenges – Big picture prediction of the future. Speaker(s): Michael Roger Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/489062