The value of the service management and orchestration (SMO) concept is delivered by the RAN automation rApps. These rApps enable service providers to evolve, deploy, optimize and heal the network automatically.

The Open RAN Alliance’s (O-RAN) service management and orchestration (SMO) platform is an intelligent automation platform which applies automation at scale to simplify the complexity of networks, as well as improve network performance, enhance customer experience and minimize RAN operational costs.

Nov 23, 2021 · The non-RT RIC operates from within the RIC’s Service Management and Orchestration (SMO) framework. This software functions centrally on the operator’s network. The non-RT RIC communicates with the near-RT RIC’s counterpart applications, called xApps, to provide policy-based guidance.

Nov 19, 2021 · Intelligent Automation Platform is an implementation of an Open RAN SMO. Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), the software constantly monitors an operator’s RAN to manage and optimize network conditions.

May 30, 2024 · Part of AT&T's $14 billion agreement with Ericsson calls for the vendor to supply service and management orchestration (SMO). That's where AT&T hopes to put third-party rApps.

In contrary to Near-RT RIC, which sits in the RAN domain and works on a timescale of tens to hundreds of milliseconds, Non-RT RIC works within the management plane (and more particularly in Service Management and Orchestration, SMO) …

The SMO framework from VMware lets you plan, deploy, orchestrate, and observe a multi-vendor, multi-cloud RAN with end-to-end automation, assurance, and optimization. Design and deploy infrastructure, cloud resources, VNFs, and CNFs. Rapidly integrate network functions and rApps from multiple vendors. Unlock and analyze O1 and O2 data.

Nov 16, 2021 · The SMO architecture effectively allows you to recreate these applications as RAN automation applications or rApps, as well as standardising the underlying application environment: the SMO’s non-RT-RIC, which uses an R1 interface that enables interoperability between platforms and vendors.

Inventec’s SMO allows private network customers to grasp the 5G service levels and allows customers to feel the improvement on the ROI for 5G private networks; it is the best choice for enterprise customers.

RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) is to enable abstracting out part of functionality from the eNB or gNB that was traditionally hosted at the base station in the form of xApps or rApps in the O-RAN architecture. The functions, to which we relate here in the RAN domain include e.g., mobility management or interference management.