OREC (5G Open RAN Ecosystem) is a project launched in February 2021 by DOCOMO and 12 global vendors in order to promote the dissemination of open RANs.
In October 2021, a vendor newly participated, and now there are 13 vendors involved in the project (as of February 2022).
NTT DOCOMO has already estimated that the performance of the latest COTS solutions and accelerator devices such as FPGA, eASIC, and GPU will achieve the same level of performance or more performance than traditional hardware.
All OREC members agreed with their estimation and believe O-RAN-based COTS solutions should become more attractive and more competitive in a few years.
