Dr. Rakesh Misra is Director, R&D in VMware’s Service Provider and Edge Business Unit. Prior to joining VMware, he co-founded Uhana Inc. that commercialized an AI/ML-powered observability and optimization platform for mobile radio access networks (RANs); Uhana was acquired by VMware in 2019. Now at VMware, he is leading the architecture and development of VMware’s open RAN platform and the creation of an ecosystem of RAN applications. He has a Ph.D. from Stanford University and B.Tech. & M.Tech. from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, all in Electrical Engineering.
Open RAN innovation is finally coming to real-world networks, and the industry will never be the same. Competition breeds innovation. It’s one of the big reasons communication...
