Qualcomm’s 5G expertise and global technology leadership uniquely position it to accelerate the deployment of high-performance, open, virtualized, and modular 5G networks at scale. This was a topic Qualcomm VP & GM of 5G RAN Infrastructure Gerardo Giaretta covered on a panel hosted by AWS Senior Manager Solution Architects Tetsuya Nakamura. They discussed with NEC Corp. GM Global Mobile Solution Department Katsumi Tanoue, Canonical CTO - Global Service Provider Arno van Huyssteen, and GM of RAN Technology Promotion Office NTT DOCOMO Masafumi Masuda how to foster near-term success in the Open vRAN environment. Gerardo spoke about the advantages of the Qualcomm X100 5G RAN Accelerator Card and how collaborations such as this are helping drive Open vRAN.