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COST INTERACT Training School on Open RAN

On 5th to 7th July 2022, the Institute of Radiocommunications, Poznan University of Technology and Rimedo Labs
have organized the summer training school under the auspices of COST action CA20120 INTERACT on “Open-RAN
networks: from theory to implementation.”
The school was held in a hybrid model, where both in-person and remote participants were allowed to join and
benefit from the school. The key focus of the school was on Open RAN, which is a recent and vibrant trend in the
telecommunications market, especially in the 5G area, aiming at the realization of various challenging objectives.
These include at first spot splitting of a base station into several functional components, including a central unit
(CU), distributed unit (DU), and a remote unit (RU). Next, they deal with opening interfaces to enable interoperabil-
ity (especially Open Fronthaul) and disaggregating software from hardware in the RAN domain.

The participants of the school had the
opportunity to deepen their knowledge
and experience in various domains of
Open RAN during three highly attractive
training days. The event was highly suc-
cessful; there were overall 70+ registra-
tions, where 18 of them have been in-
persons. The scores received in the evalu-
ation surveys circulated among the par-
ticipants are very high, which proves the
impact of the school.