- Open RAN: Industry Term for Open Radio Access Network Architecture with open interoperable interfaces, Virtualization, and AI/ML-enabled RAN.
- OpenRAN: Initiatives are driven by TIP’s OpenRAN Project group.
- O-RAN: It refers to O-RAN Alliance Community.
- vRAN: Virtualized radio access networks (vRANs) are a way for operators to run their baseband functions as Software.
- Cloud RAN: It is a virtualization RAN that is designed to be Cloud-Native and built with microservices, CI/CD, and Containerization.

