Wireless Forward: Evolving Technologies and Transitioning from Academia to Industry

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Wireless Forward: Evolving Technologies and Transitioning from Academia to Industry


 
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. 

Date and Time

Date: 04 Jul 2025Time: 01:00 PM ADT to 02:00 PM ADT

Location

  • This event has virtual attendance info. Please visit the event page to attend virtually.

Hosts

Registration

  • Starts 14 June 2025 01:00 AM ADT
  • Ends 04 July 2025 03:00 PM ADT
  • No Admission Charge

Speakers

Michael Roger

Biography:

Michael Roger has over 25 years of experience in the telecommunications industry, with the past two decades dedicated to wireless technologies. His career began at Nortel in the wireline division, where he developed fault-handling software. In 2005, he transitioned to Nortel’s wireless business unit, contributing to CDMA and then LTE technologies.  Following the acquisition of Nortel’s wireless division by Ericsson in 2009, he joined Ericsson as a Senior Software Designer on the Baseband 3GPP Layer 2 team, specializing in over-the-air scheduling. In 2020, with the launch of Ericsson’s Cloud RAN initiative, he moved into a role as a Team Lead and Senior Designer within the Cloud RAN Layer 2 department. In 2021, he joined Dell Technologies as the 5G DU Software Architect and later became a Systems Architect. Most recently, in November 2024, he took on the role of Wireless Chief Cloud RAN Software Architect at Huawei. 





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