Open DAS: Open RAN and DAS converge. With Upendra Pingle, ANDREW

It is hard to overstate the need for more indoor capacity and better coverage when you think that over 80% of traffic comes from indoor locations. And to address this need, we need more indoor infrastructure. But what’s the best way to get there? DAS or small cells? Or is Wi-Fi enough?

I talked to Upendra Pingle, General Manager, Indoor Cellular Networks at ANDREW, an Ampehnol company, one of the most passionate advocates of indoor coverage, and we talked about what could be a third way: Open DAS. It is different from the expensive and complex traditional DAS, and closer to a small-cell open-RAN architecture. How should we think about the Open DAS? How can DAS benefit from disaggregation? And are we at a point where DAS and small cells converge into a hybrid model?

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