
Dimitris Mavrakis
Senior Research Director
Topics Covered
Insights

Are GPUs worth considering for 5G RAN?
Insight | 2Q 2025 | IN-7808

VMware Exodus Has Begun, Creating Major Opportunities for Wind River and New Entrants
Insight | 4Q 2024 | IN-7665

AI Copilots Powering the Future of Autonomous Networks
Insight | 4Q 2024 | IN-7569

What the Microsoft Azure Telco Recent Layoffs Mean for the Broader Industry
Insight | 3Q 2024 | IN-7448

Open Networks Will Require Tighter OSS Vertical Integration
Insight | 2Q 2023 | IN-6992

Could Passive IoT Be the Killer App for 5G-Advanced?
Insight | 2Q 2023 | IN-6927

MWC 2023 Shows a Mature Technology Industry Still in Search of the Killer Enterprise 5G Use Case
Insight | 1Q 2023 | IN-6882

The Declaration for the Future of the Internet: Why Now and How Will It Happen?
Insight | 2Q 2022 | IN-6540

Ericsson’s acquisition of Vonage: short or long-game?
Insight | 4Q 2021 | IN-6374

What Went Wrong with 5G?
Insight | 3Q 2021 | IN-6236

Greenfield Cloud-Based 5G Networks Pave the Way for Alternative Vendor Selection
Insight | 3Q 2021 | IN-6209

AWS and DISH Partnership is a Major Milestone
Insight | 2Q 2021 | IN-6164

Is a Practical Form of Network Slicing Coming Back Into Fashion?
Insight | 2Q 2021 | IN-6122

Distributed Computing Is the Next Battleground, and Everyone Is Competing
Insight | 1Q 2021 | IN-6091

Will Rakuten Mobile Fail?
Insight | 1Q 2021 | IN-6066

Telco Edge Strategies Start to Mature
Insight | 1Q 2021 | IN-6029

The Next Breakthrough in Indoor Wireless: Distributed Massive MIMO
Insight | 4Q 2020 | IN-5993

The Critical Role of Chipset Developments for Open RAN
Insight | 4Q 2020 | IN-5966

Amazon and Microsoft’s Strategies in the Telco Domain
Insight | 3Q 2020 | IN-5891

5G Release 16 Reliable Communications for Enterprise Verticals
Insight | 3Q 2020 | IN-5866

What Is the Real Cost of Removing Huawei?
Insight | 2Q 2020 | IN-5810

How will COVID-19 Affect 5G Network Deployments?
Insight | 2Q 2020 | IN-5779

Geopolitics and OpenRAN
Insight | 1Q 2020 | IN-5765

Mobile Networks as a Catalyst for Distributed Computing
Insight | 1Q 2020 | IN-5734

Telefonica's New Plan Is Nothing New
Insight | 1Q 2020 | IN-5713
Research

Report | 4Q 2024 | AN-6240

Whitepaper | 4Q 2024 | WP-214

Report | 2Q 2024 | AN-6157

Whitepaper | 2Q 2024 | WP-205

Report | 2Q 2024 | AN-6156

Presentation | 4Q 2023 | PT-2819

Whitepaper | 4Q 2023 | WP-1030

Report | 4Q 2023 | AN-5922

Whitepaper | 1Q 2022 | WP-WNGH-187

Presentation | 4Q 2021 | PT-2550

Presentation | 4Q 2021 | PT-2556

Report | 3Q 2021 | AN-5101

Presentation | 1Q 2021 | PT-2505

Whitepaper | 1Q 2020 | WP-WNGH-158

Whitepaper | 1Q 2020 | WP-WNGH-160

Whitepaper | 1Q 2020 | WP-WNGH-161

Market Data | 1Q 2020 | MD-INFR-104
Dimitris Mavrakis In The News
Is Open RAN dead? How tier-1 vendors took over the Open RAN vision
Capacity (2025-02-12)Dimitris Mavrakis, Senior Research Director at ABI Research, recently sparked a heated discussion on LinkedIn with his assertion: "Open RAN is dead." While the statement may seem dramatic, Mavrakis' argument is rooted in a clear trend—Open RAN’s early vision of vendor-neutral interoperability is...