VIAVI Provides Benchmarking and Validation for Global O-RAN PlugFest, as Technology Gains Acceptance Across More Industry Organizations

<br /> VIAVI Provides Benchmarking and Validation for Global O-RAN PlugFest, as Technology Gains Acceptance Across More Industry Organizations<br />

PR Newswire

CHANDLER, Ariz.

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Dec. 14, 2022

/PRNewswire/ —

Viavi Solutions Inc.

(VIAVI) (NASDAQ: VIAV) today shared the company’s role in the Fall 2022 O-RAN PlugFest organized by the

O-RAN ALLIANCE

and hosted by industry leaders. The PlugFest involved a series of on-site demonstrations across multiple countries, conducted in October and

November 2022

.

VIAVI provided benchmarking and validation for PlugFest tests and demonstrations

at the following sites

:

University of New Hampshire

InterOperability Laboratory in

Durham, New Hampshire

, USA
TIP Community Lab hosted by Meta in

Menlo Park, California

, USA
Kyrio OTIC Lab hosted by CableLabs in

Louisville, Colorado

, USA
i14y Lab hosted by Deutsche Telekom in

Berlin, Germany
Orange, SA in

Paris, France
EURECOM in Biot,

France
TIM Innovation Lab in

Torino, Italy
Yokosuka Research Park hosted by NTT DOCOMO and another major service provider in Yokosuka City,

Japan

.

“The Fall 2022 O-RAN PlugFest followed a remarkable period in which more industry organizations aligned with the O-RAN ALLIANCE, driving adoption even more globally,” commented Dr.

Ian Wong

, CTO Office, VIAVI and Co-Chair, Testing and Integration Focus Group, O-RAN ALLIANCE. “An increasing number of major vendors are advancing the RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC), with Nokia being a notable participant in the PlugFest.

ETSI

adopted its first O-RAN specification, ‘O-RAN Fronthaul Control, User and Synchronization Plane Specification v7.02.’ And the Telecom Infra Project and O-RAN ALLIANCE committed to renewed alignment at

FYUZ 2022

. Growing acceptance of O-RAN specifications was evident in the strong collaboration, robust test cases and effective completion of activities during the PlugFest.”

The

VIAVI Test Suite for O-RAN Specifications

supported conformance, performance, interoperability, and end-to-end testing:

RIC

– VIAVI demonstrated near real-time RIC platform conformance test and xApp performance benchmarking with RIC and xApps supplied by:

Nokia near real-time RIC, and conformance of E2SM-KPM and E2SM-RC functions
TIM near real-time RIC, QoS xApp, Traffic Steering xApp
Capgemini Engineering RIC, Traffic Steering and QoS xApps
HCLTech Traffic Steering and Predictive Load Balancing xApp
NEC RIC, HCLTech Bouncer xApp

The VIAVI

TeraVM RIC Test

emulates E2 Nodes generating E2 procedures to test

RIC

compliance as well as Traffic scenarios to train and test the

xApp

functionality and decision making.

Multivendor end-to-end (E2E) interoperability

– The VIAVI

TM500 UE Emulator

and

TeraVM Core Emulator

were used for E2E testing of multiple vendor combinations, including:

Capgemini Engineering O-DU and O-CU connected to Aarna Networks

AMCOP O-RAN Service Management and Orchestration (SMO)

via O1, which is the first ever test of SMO and O1 interface using the TIP

OpenRAN

Orchestration and Management Automation (

ROMA

) test plan, furthering alignment between TIP and the O-RAN ALLIANCE
NEC O-RU with another vendor’s O-DU and O-CU using VIAVI

E500

for security testing
Sunwave

O-RU, Radisys O-DU and O-CU, Calnex FrontHaul impairment emulator, Xena Networks Fronthaul impairment emulator, and Lumentum TSFP+
Node-H O-RU and O-DU, and

Accelleran

O-CU
Radisys O-DU and O-CU with another vendor’s O-RU
Capgemini Engineering O-DU and O-CU with another vendor’s O-RU
VVDN O-RU, OpenAirInterface (OAI) O-DU/O-CU/Core Network using

TMLite running on 3rd Gen AMD EPYC™ CPU-powered servers

O-RU

– VIAVI and Rohde & Schwarz partnered on conformance and performance testing of a Fujitsu O-RU, Analog Devices’ ADRV904x-RD-RUMB 8T8R O-RU reference design and development kit, and an MTI O-RU. The combined testbed includes the VIAVI

TM500 O-RU Tester

and the Rohde & Schwarz SMW200A or SMM100A Vector Signal Generator (VSG), FSV3000 or FSVA3000 Signal and Spectrum Analyzer and Vector Signal Explorer (VSE) software, with the O-RU Test Manager providing a seamless user experience. Separately, the VIAVI TM500 O-RU Tester and TMLite were used for Direct Performance Testing (DPT) of the Fujitsu 32TRX mMIMO O-RU.

O-CU

–

VIAVI

and

Capgemini

Engineering partnered on interface (

Xn

and F1-C) and

handover

testing of a

Capgemini

Engineering O-CU. The

VIAVI

TeraVM O-CU Tester

emulated the

O-DU

.

“Once again, VIAVI is proud to have been able to support both standardization activities and PlugFest testing spanning each of the different subsystems as well as end-to-end interoperability and security testing,” said

Stephen Hire

, Vice President of Wireless Marketing, VIAVI. “We are strongly committed to helping the industry to be successful in commercializing O-RAN technology and delivering the benefits that network operators demand.”

VIAVI offers

the most comprehensive test suite on the market

for lab validation, field deployment and service assurance of O-RAN networks. With vast experience validating network products for operators and manufacturers worldwide, VIAVI allows testing of any node – O-RU, O-DU, O-CU, RIC and Core – and complete end-to-end testing to be performed on premise, in the cloud or as a service.

About VIAVI

VIAVI (NASDAQ: VIAV) is a global provider of network test, monitoring and assurance solutions for communications service providers, hyperscalers, equipment manufacturers, enterprises, government and avionics. VIAVI is also a leader in light management technologies for 3D sensing, anti-counterfeiting, consumer electronics, industrial, automotive, government and aerospace applications. Together with our customers and partners we are

United in Possibility

, finding innovative ways to solve real-world problems. Learn more about VIAVI at

www.viavisolutions.com

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