 I would like to also welcome everyone. We will have an amazing panel where we will talk about starting acts in the OpenRAN context. We have a few great speakers with us. Andy Duncan, OpenRAN, RF and Digital Platform Development Manager at Podophone. Muhammad Gil, who is Vice President, Industry Solutions at Wind River. And John McCready, who is Director of Product Management, RAN, and Private Mobility Solutions at Dell Technologies. So before we jump in and ask some questions to our great panel, let me just tell you a few words about starting acts. It is a fully integrated open source cloud platform that is fine tuned for edge and IoT use cases. The platform creates a fusion between open stack and Kubernetes and many other open source components. And with that, it creates a platform that is capable of running a virtualized, containerized and bare metal workloads and treating them all as first class citizens. The community, as you would kind of assume because of the edge focus, has a high focus and emphasis on security and aspects around zero touch deployment, management and operation. And one of the flagship features of the platform is called the Distributed Cloud Architecture, which provides you with the possibility of a centralized management within the platform when it comes to the central sites and the edge sites. However, it also provides the possibility on the edge sites to run them in an autonomous way, which becomes really important and handy in case connection loss happens between the central side and the edge. And well, let's face it, sometimes it happens, but then the system resynchronizes and the workloads should not really feel any impact because of that connection loss. And when it comes to edge computing, I just talked about connectivity, which is crucial. Without connectivity, we don't really have a true end-to-end edge architecture. And to be able to provide that connectivity, the telecommunication industry has to be the pioneer in the edge computing space, which is what they are doing as we speak. And therefore, it's not really a surprise that StarlingX as an edge platform is really popular in the telecom industry. And as an example to that, we have Vodafone with us today. So I'm really excited to start with Andy and ask a few questions because Vodafone is a leader in OpenRAN. They are having their rollout in the UK currently, which happens to be the first commercial OpenRAN rollout in Europe, which is really, really exciting. And they are using StarlingX as part of their infrastructure. So Andy, I'm turning to you. What are your goals for OpenRAN in the future and what do you expect? How it will affect your business? So we've been working on the OpenRAN platforms now for an excessive five years. It's been a remarkable journey, which I'm glad to say a wide portion of the industry is following us on as well. And it's really looking at how we move from where we are today to drive a more open ecosystem in the provision of the RAN networks to drive more competition within the marketplace, introduce new vendors to that, to support us in our objectives of bringing the very best services to our customers. And as we move into 5G and the deployment expands across our markets, and we see our customers are having much more specific requirements in terms of the services and applications that they wanted to see running. So the flexibility of open source solutions, the community that we see developing those solutions and really helping us to drive innovation, which is critical to meet the demands of our customers, are all very much in line with our core objectives for OpenRAN. So in summary, it's about broadening the ecosystem. It's about accelerating research and development and then really using the community to drive innovation, to deliver the services to our customers. So the synergies there are really strong and we do see now increased support from many vendors and many of the industry open source communities to really focus on OpenRAN and deliver the type of products that we need. That sounds amazing. And kind of looking a bit into how the community and the platform like StartingX can help you. I would like to just go and take a closer look at the technology side a little bit. So what are some of the biggest technical challenges that you have faced when it comes to OpenRAN and how does StartingX help you to overcome them? So it's, you know, we're coming from a very, very high baseline. You know, the proprietary platforms that we deliver today to our customers, you know, are clearly world-class platforms delivering services at a very high standard. So, you know, we have to work across this new ecosystem, working with vendors really to bring the OpenRAN platform up to that level and, you know, back to the points earlier really, it's about that flexibility. It's about the desire to have that broader vendor community delivering and contributing to the overall solution. And the key things that we're seeing today really is about driving scalability. You know, of the 20 plus networks that we run globally today, it's probably fair to say that no two networks is ever the same. You know, many of those networks have evolved over the last 20 years. They have various legacy transmission implementations, the infrastructure is often distributed. And that's one of the critical things for us. We need a platform that fundamentally follows a standard blueprints so that we can replicate that effectively across many markets. But we want one that is both scalable and flexible. And that's where, you know, it's helped us make the decisions to support our initial market deployments. The UK is a very good example of where that's happening now as we speak. You know, as we were saying about the customers really, it's about now needing to be agile and efficient to meet the demands of our customers delivering those new services. And ensuring that the platform that we deploy today can expand and evolve as our network requirements will do as we move from 5G technology which we're only just starting to roll out today and then into the future 6G and beyond that. So we want a platform that is open, efficient, scalable and agile. And at the moment we think that we're seeing all of these attributes in this sort of open source community and enabling to meet the requirements that we have, which in itself probably leads us on to one of the bigger challenges is that we're used to taking solutions and products from single vendors in the past. And what we're having to do now is generally we're taking best in class solutions but we have to integrate those back into one common and single platform. Technically the components are all working really very well but as you bring different vendors together matching our target blueprints for the first markets and as we say the UK being one of those we're having to spend time now really working on the interoperability, the integration of the subcomponents and ensuring that the platform that we deliver at the end of the day is one that meets and hopefully exceeds our customer's expectations. So it's about getting it right at the moment and just ensuring that it does exactly that. Amazing, thank you for these great insights. And I would like to just kind of follow up on that and turn over to Muhammad and kind of take the vendor perspective a little bit as well. So Muhammad, what are the benefits that you are seeing that then deliver customers are getting from StartingX? Thank you. So been in the operator shoes for a long time. I'll speak about a key benefits that an operator as ESP can get out of StartingX. The first one is the simple design and architecture. Wind River has been developing real-time operating systems and Linux operating systems for decades. So we bring that deep expertise into the picture and with that knowledge when we contributed to the development of StartingX we ensured the design is simple. It is edge ready. It takes care of a variety of use cases, needing low latency, high scalability and throughput. That's one big benefit, simple architecture. And it is built in collaboration with leading chipset hardware and software partners from the ground up. Second thing we knew cost optimization is top of the mind of the operators. Our studio product, which is again, built off of StartingX project is very low in footprint. For example, for Intel, Iceland processor out of 32 cores, we only take two cores, leaving other 30 to run BDU or other workloads. So very low footprint. Secondly, out of the same software, we support both Kubernetes containers. And we also support the open source stuff as well, the VMs. So the operator doesn't have to use separate hardware for VMs and containers. It's being run off of the same platform. It is running in Verizon's network, hitting five nines reliability. It's commercial grid product. Another big one is these are large scale networks, hundreds and thousands of nodes. So our platform offers that scalability and ease of deployment. We have zero touch provisioning and automation capability to orchestrate the workload across hundreds of applications, thousands of nodes across nationwide. Another big one is ease of operation. Once the network is up and running, how easy it is to run it. So we have single pane of glass operations. We have built in analytics that uses machine learning to proactively identify and fix issues. And the architecture being simple, it really leverages itself to easily identify and fix issues. So we offer a lot of great capabilities and strengths that are near and dear to the operators across the globe. When it comes to operators, before we move forward, I wanted to also just quickly ask you to maybe tell a bit about the user community around Starling X, who's involved and what use cases they are using Starling X for. Great question. So we're blessed with a really diverse community for Starling X. From open source perspective, we have partners like Kubernetes, Dockers, OpenStack, and then from hardware perspective, we're working very closely with Intel, Dell and Fujitsu. Then we have a variety of VRAM, OpenRAM software providers, solution providers, in case of Vodafone and Verizon, we're working with Samsung, we're working with Mavinia, Kasa, Airspan. Others, the list goes on and on. So it's a very diverse and vibrant community contributing both from the radio side of the house, the software and then our orchestration, the whole line yards. And I would also like to mention another big one, we have been working very closely with Dell. We have a program there. We pre-certified the hardware with Dell. We did that for the previous hardware. Now we're working that program for XR11 as well. Amazing, thank you. And with the interest of time, on that note, I would like to turn over to John and just ask you to please tell us a few words about how Dell is involved in OpenRAM, what Dell is doing there. Sure, thank you. Dell's been involved in digital transformation, cloudification, et cetera, in the enterprise for years. And now we see the telco network really as the next frontier. And it has been great progress in the packet core and the voice core and now RAN is obviously a great opportunity for the industry to get a lot more efficient and leverage all this great technology we've been talking about already. So as Mohamed mentioned, we've developed a number of hardware platforms that are specific to the requirements of, not just to telco generically, but to the telco network and the RAN specifically. And we have a really active pipeline of products that are gonna come to continue to move that forward. And I think Andy highlighted the fact there's no two telco networks the same. And so we have to have a lot of flexibility and a lot of diversity in the portfolio and able to be able to serve everybody that is there. The other part that's really important is we intend to apply OpenRAM principles to some offers in the private mobility side as well, which is a great new opportunity for carriers to be able to use the 5G technology as part of the business infrastructure, manufacturing, healthcare, logistics. All these industries are seeing great opportunities to leverage 5G. And that's a place where Dell can really add value. That sounds great. And I think it also kind of points back to collaboration as it came up a couple of times during our panel today. So on that note, I just also wanted to ask you how you see that what kind of partnerships are you building and what is your view about these partnerships when it comes to OpenRAM? Well, I think it's critical because the key point of OpenRAM is open. And so, you know, Dell's working with partners at all layers of the stack, whether it's the RAN application itself, you know, the CU and DU software, whether that's for carriers or for enterprise opportunities. Of course, we're working closely with the large carriers themselves. We're really proud to be part of Vodafone's initial selection for their OpenRAM opportunity in partnership with people like WinRiver. And we announced, you know, we're developing a lab infrastructure, which we've branded as OTEL for OpenTelecom Laboratory. And in there, you know, we're bringing a lot of the players in the industry. Many have been mentioned, you know, people like Mabineer, et cetera. And really at all layers of the stack, you know, whether it's the operating system, VMs, Kubernetes, whether it's the application, whether it's automation, which is a huge part of making OpenRAM successful, being able to drive an automation solution so that carriers are able to run what effectively becomes a bit more of a complex network. So, you know, we're gonna need all the innovation of all the players in the industry to really make this successful and Del's happy to be acting in the middle of that. Thank you so much. And with that, we unfortunately have to conclude our panel. This is all the time that we have for today. Thank you, Andy, Mohammed, and John for this amazing discussion and great insights into how the telecom industry and OpenRAM is evolving. We heard five, nine, six G, and it's all about collaboration and community to make all these happen and deliver on these requirements. So this is my call to action for you who's watching this panel to come and get involved and get in touch with the community.