Sophia Antipolis, France & Bonn, Germany:
ETSI and O-RAN are happy to announce that ETSI has adopted the first O-RAN specification as ETSI TS 103 859, particularly ‘O-RAN Fronthaul Control, User and Synchronization Plane Specification v7.02’. The doc focuses on Open Fronthaul, one among interfaces within the O-RAN Architecture for open and clever Radio Access Networks. It specifies the management aircraft, person aircraft and synchronization aircraft protocols used over the fronthaul interface linking the O-DU (O-RAN Distributed Unit) and the O-RU (O-RAN Radio Unit) for the decrease layer practical splits. The scope of TS 103 859 consists of each LTE and NR (5G).
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“Recognition of O-RAN specifications by ETSI is another major step in enabling broad adoption of Open RAN,” stated Claire Chauvin, O-RAN Board member and Strategy Architecture and Standardization Director at Orange. “Having the O-RAN specification available as an ETSI specification adds further endorsement desired by commercial and public sector entities in a range of countries.”
“The O-RAN specification has been approved as an ETSI specification after a thorough review and requested revisions by our experts,” stated Dominique Everaere, Chair of the ETSI Mobile Standards Group Technical Committee. “When specifications go through the ETSI PAS process, they need to comply with the ETSI rules, and the ETSI committee in charge of these specifications works with the organization to ensure they align with existing procedures for approval as ETSI standards.”
The ETSI Publicly Available Specification (PAS) course of permits an ETSI companion to submit a number of of its PAS for adoption by ETSI. It can then change into an ETSI Technical Specification (TS) or ETSI Technical Report (TR). The group asking for this course of have to be a authorized entity, have an IPR coverage appropriate with ETSI’s or have exceptionally accepted to use ETSI’s IPR coverage, and have signed a Cooperation Agreement.
O-RAN is getting ready to submit extra of its specs to the ETSI PAS course of to acknowledge further elements of the O-RAN Architecture as ETSI specs.
About ETSI
ETSI offers members with an open and inclusive atmosphere to help the event, ratification and testing of worldwide relevant requirements for ICT methods and providers throughout all sectors of business and society. We are a non-profit physique, with greater than 900 member organizations worldwide, drawn from 64 nations and 5 continents. The members comprise a diversified pool of enormous and small non-public firms, analysis entities, academia, authorities, and public organizations. ETSI is formally acknowledged by the EU as a European Standardization Organization (ESO). For extra info, please go to us at https://www.etsi.org/.
About O-RAN ALLIANCE
The O-RAN ALLIANCE is a world-wide neighborhood of greater than 320 cellular operators, distributors, and analysis & tutorial establishments working within the Radio Access Network (RAN) business. As the RAN is an important a part of any cellular community, the O-RAN ALLIANCE’s mission is to re-shape the business in the direction of extra clever, open, virtualized and totally interoperable cellular networks. The new O-RAN specs allow a extra aggressive and vibrant RAN provider ecosystem with sooner innovation to enhance person expertise. O-RAN primarily based cellular networks on the identical time enhance the effectivity of RAN deployments in addition to operations by the cellular operators. To obtain this, the O-RAN ALLIANCE publishes new RAN specs, releases open software program for the RAN, and helps its members in integration and testing of their implementations.
For extra info, please go to www.o-ran.org.
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