Sofia Ferraro / Chief Technology Officer
Perspectives from a life in leadership.
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When a supplier must be removed, the instinct is to replace its equipment like for like and move on. I argue that an operator should treat the programme as the one visit it will make to every affected site this decade, and change power, bands and legacy layers on that visit.
Read the essayWhen a supplier must be removed, the instinct is to replace its equipment like for like and move on. I argue that an operator should treat the programme as the one visit it will make to every affected site this decade, and change power, bands and legacy layers on that visit.
Our 240-site pilot showed that open interfaces lowered prices and widened choice, but made faults far slower to assign. I argue that a challenger should keep Open RAN as a small, permanent second source in defined layers, with one accountable owner for every fault, rather than plan a network-wide migration.
An exchange-powered copper line kept working in a blackout; fibre and fixed-wireless lines do not. I argue that operators moving customers off copper should state how long each service lasts without mains power, equip the customers who depend on it, and size site batteries by what each site serves.