ETSI and O-RAN Alliance release first Open RAN specification

Open RAN has taken a step closer to becoming an official standard, with European standardization body ETSI giving an O-RAN specification its seal of approval.
Specifically we’re talking about ‘O-RAN Fronthaul Control, User and Synchronization Plane Specification v7.02’, which can now also be referred to by the equally catchy moniker of ETSI TS 103 859. If you want a sense of how incredibly arcane and detailed the tech specification game is, just click on that hyperlink and imme