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Like most things telecom, Open RAN brings with it a complex alphabet soup of acronyms and initialisms. Here we’re providing brief explanations of some key terminology. And, to be sure, this is a superficial description of the following terms and a fraction of the full set of relevant jargon, writes SEAN KINNEY. Functional split The notion of functional splits in the RAN first came up in 3GPP Release 14 and was further defined in Release 15. The high-level idea is that the primary 5G use cases–enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB), ultra...