O-RAN ALLIANCE Announces Key Topics at the Open RAN Summit at Fyuz, Global PlugFest Fall 2022 and a New Set of O-RAN Demos

• Key matters at the Open RAN Summit @ Fyuz 2022 introduced by the O-RAN ALLIANCE
• O-RAN Global PlugFest Fall 2022 initiated at 6 venues throughout Asia, Europe and North America
• 36 new demos of O-RAN know-how at the O-RAN Virtual Exhibition

O-RAN ALLIANCE:

Key matters at the Open RAN Summit @ Fyuz 2022 introduced by the O-RAN ALLIANCE

The Open RAN Summit @ Fyuz, powered by O-RAN ALLIANCE and Telecom Infra Project, will happen in Madrid on October 25-26, 2022. As a fundamental companion of the occasion, O-RAN ALLIANCE brings key matters to the agenda and invitations utmost erudite audio system.

Join the occasion to get the newest information and views on:

• O-RAN ALLIANCE and TIP cooperation
• Established operators worldwide showcasing how they’re overcoming Open RAN challenges and transferring ahead with deployments
• Open RAN cloudification choices and realities
• Achievements and challenges on the open RAN provide facet, together with insights into worth chain evolution
• Rich selection of Open RAN deployment paths tailor-made to satisfy numerous operator’s wants
• How the testing and integration work is essential to creating Open RAN a success
• What’s behind the hype of the RAN Intelligent Controllers and how an empowered ecosystem delivers personalized operator worth
• And many extra in a wide selection of breakout periods

The Open RAN Summit @ Fyuz is being ready in a gorgeous manner combining targeted periods with meals expertise. Register and be taught extra at www.fyuz.occasions.

O-RAN Global PlugFest Fall 2022 initiated at 6 venues throughout Asia, Europe and North America

O-RAN ALLIANCE world PlugFests signify a main platform enabling environment friendly progress of the O-RAN ecosystem by way of well-organized testing and integration.

O-RAN Global PlugFest Fall 2022, second O-RAN PlugFest this 12 months, has been initiated at 6 venues. Number of registrations presently exceeds 80 corporations or establishments, of which many are able to take part at multiple venue.

O-RAN Global PlugFest Fall 2022 is scheduled to conclude in December this 12 months. Upon then, O-RAN plans so as to add its outcomes, together with the ultimate record of contributors, to the O-RAN PlugFest Virtual Showcase.

O-RAN Global PlugFest Fall 2022 contains:

In Asia:

• PlugFest in Japan, hosted by KDDI, NTT DOCOMO, Rakuten Mobile, SoftBank, YRP and YRPC presently counts 14 registered contributors together with: Anritsu, Calnex Solutions, ComWorth, DZS, HCL Technologies, IP Infusion, ITRI, Keysight Technologies, LITEON, MiTAC Computing Technology, NEC, SageRAN Technology, VIAVI Solutions and Wind River.
• PlugFest in South Korea hosted by LG Uplus presently counts 7 registered contributors together with: Ciena, DELL Technologies, ETRI, Innowireless, Juniper Networks, Keysight Technologies and Viettel High Technology Industries.
• PlugFest in South Korea hosted by SK Telecom presently counts 10 registered contributors together with: ETRI, Intel, HFR Networks, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Keysight Technologies and Wind River.

In Europe:

• Joint European O-RAN and TIP PlugFest, hosted by Deutsche Telekom, EANTC, EURECOM, Orange, TIM, Vodafone and BT, presently counts 36 registered contributors together with: Aarna Networks, Acceleran, ADVA Optical Networking, AMD, Analog Devices, Anritsu, Azcom Technology, Calnex Solutions, Capgemini Engineering, Dell Technologies, DZS, Fujitsu, HCL Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, IP Infusion, ITRI, Juniper Networks, Keysight Technologies, LITEON, Mavenir, MICAS, Microamp Solutions, NEC, Net AI, Nokia, Open Valley, Precision Optical Transceivers, Red Hat, Rimedo Labs, Rohde & Schwarz, SIAE MICROELETTRONICA, SOLiD, VIAVI Solutions, VoerEir, Wind River, VMware and Xena Networks.

In North America:

• PlugFest in North America, hosted by CableLabs, presently counts 6 registered contributors together with: Capgemini, Fujitsu, Radisys, Rohde & Schwarz, Sunwave and VIAVI Solutions.
• PocFest in North America, hosted by UNH-IOL, presently counts 15 registered contributors together with: Analog Devices, Anritsu, DZS, Fujitsu, Intel, IP Infusion, Keysight Technologies, LitePoint, NEC, Rohde & Schwarz, SOLiD, VIAVI Solutions, Telecom Engineering Centre, Vodafone and Wind River.

36 new demos of O-RAN know-how at the O-RAN Virtual Exhibition

O-RAN ALLIANCE member corporations have been progressing with their O-RAN primarily based implementations.

One demonstration can be offered on-site at MWC Las Vegas:

• VIAVI Solutions, Rohde & Schwarz and AMD collectively show O-RAN Open Fronthaul (OFH) conformance and 3GPP pre-conformance validation of AMD’s reference design O-RU. The AMD O-RU is validated by VIAVI automated TM500 O-RU Tester with R&S SMW200A vector sign generator, R&S FSVA3000 spectrum analyzer and the R&S VSE sign evaluation software program. The demonstration highlights a progressive check plan together with purposeful, interoperability, conformance and efficiency testing, with a single level of management for the whole testbed. Visit the demo at AMD,sales space W1.720.

More new demonstrations will quickly be out there at the O-RAN Virtual Exhibition.

Newly added Intelligent RAN management demonstrations embrace:

• AirHop and VMware show how automation and programmability effectively detect and remediate PCI collisions/confusions to optimize RAN efficiency. The proposal is a resolution to present RAN frequency planning, battle mitigation and optimization strategies that are expensive and time-consuming, slowing deployment of new providers and lowering efficiency of present ones.
• Cellwize and VMware show the way to carry programmability to any kind of RAN deployment, together with purpose-built RANs. As an instance, we show how Cellwize’s rApp onboarded on VMware Centralized RIC optimizes EN-DC anchoring to maximise spectral utilization in purpose-built RANs; resulting in monetizable beneficial properties in efficiency.
• Cohere and VMware show how utilizing RAN programmability, operators can double cellular bandwidth with none modifications to antennas, radio or gadgets. Using Cohere’s Spectrum Multiplier xApp powered by VMware Distributed RIC, now Services Providers can activate broadband in rural areas whereas avoiding expensive modifications in handsets or infrastructure.
• Ericsson demonstrates how CSPs can improve buyer expertise with SMO and rApps. Ericsson FLM (Frequency Layer Manager) rApp operating on the EIAP (Ericsson Intelligent Automation Platform) manages the complexity of site visitors load distribution in 4G/5G RAN deployments. It robotically configures the community with a purpose to present the greatest buyer expertise whereas lowering OpEx and optimizing spectral utilization.
• Groundhog demonstrates O-CLOUD and Intelligent RAN management utilizing CovMo™, a cloud-native geo-location resolution that detects and mitigate a multitude of challenges presently confronted by MNOs together with RAN-optimization, VIP-care, and next-generation community rollout methods. Combining superior accuracy and geo-KPIs, CovMo™ intelligently gives essential insights on the QoS skilled by the subscribers.
• Inventec and NYCU showcase the way to combine the O-RAN SMO with the manufacturing unit and educational fields as a first step to realizing digital twins with a painless improve of a 5G vertical ecosystem from a system integration perspective.
• NYCU demonstrates an instructional 5G O-RAN area and SMO/xAPP validation platform in Taiwan. It is constructed for enhancement to AI algorithms for 5G O-RAN Private Networks, develop B5G know-how, coaching, use case, B5G/6G Research, implementation of the PoC software and third occasion verification primarily based on ISO 17025 commonplace.
• Polte and VMware show the way to leverage RAN programmability to ship exact sub-meter UE positioning. Using mobile as prime know-how (versus GPS or Wi-Fi), Polte’s xApp powered by VMware’s Near-Real-time RIC presents world location indoors/outside, whereas reducing value and extending battery life of the IoT asset tracker.
• VIAVI demonstrates how a number of xApps can work collectively to enhance the person expertise of UEs (standing, strolling, and driving) after an anomaly in the radio atmosphere has negatively affected their information throughput.
• VMware and Intel show how easy it’s for xApp companions to make use of Intel FlexRAN E2SM-KPM and E2SM-RC libraries built-in in VMware Distributed RIC’s code to watch, management and optimize the efficiency of a set of UEs distributed in a sector.

Newly added Open RAN demonstrations embrace:

• Anritsu demonstrates O-RAN open fronthaul conformance check. A O-RU transmitters and receivers traits are examined by Anritsu sign analyzer and generator. This demonstration highlights the way to carry out actually and effectively specified assessments and different life like check eventualities to speed up set up and scaling of Open RAN.
• ArrayComm showcases its 5G Distributed Small Cell, a versatile 5G protection resolution with low energy consumption. It contains white field BBU, Fronthaul Gateway, and O-RU. The BBU helps 2 FHGW connections, every FHGW helps most 12 O-RU connections. The 5G SA E2E demo reveals the excessive efficiency and stability testing with measured giant uplink throughputs, with networking of BBU, FHGW and O-RU as 1:2:2.
• ArrayComm demonstrates its 5G Distributed Small Cell E2E functionality primarily based on a Marvell platform white field base station. O-RAN Option7.2x eCPRI Fronthaul interface and SCF FAPI are utilized by the white field base station which might be broadly utilized in the capability protection enchancment eventualities, and might be simply deployed as cloud RAN.
• Azcom Technology showcases an O-RAN primarily based Multi-RAT 5G RU reference design, the AZR-5000 RU. The reference may also be utilized for preliminary 5G community area trials or integration functions.
• CIG, Actiontec and Keysight Technologies participated in the O-RAN ALLIANCE PlugFest to show Open Fronthaul performance between CIG O-RU and Keysight O-DU Emulator.
• DeepSig demonstrates its OmniPHY-5G Neural Receiver Software bettering the 5G uplink capability and throughput whereas bettering the vitality effectivity of the O-RAN O-DU. This demonstration makes use of a business UE over-the-air and a RIC xApp to supply on-line coaching to enhance key air interface KPIs and efficiency.
• Infosys demonstrates the structure of its O-RAN resolution for Private 5G, integration, end-to-end testing with Keysight’s emulated UE, and onboarding of Industry 4.0 use instances for enterprises.
• IS-Wireless showcases a Multi MNO state of affairs supported in the kind of a Neutral Host. The end-to-end Open RAN community is deployable on any cloud in an automatic method as containers and helps each Open Fronthaul Split 7.2x and 3GPP break up 2.
• GDCNi demonstrates its O-RAN primarily based disaggregated resolution and deployment fashions, attaining interoperability with a number of distributors utilizing O-RAN Open Interfaces. GDCNi’s ecosystem contains a selection of versatile options and deployment choices (RU, DU, RU+DU, CU+RU+DU, and CU+DU+RU+5GC) enabling an E2E product resolution to satisfy the completely different calls for of clients.
• Keysight Technologies and Cisco show O-RAN Xhaul transport community check resolution consisting of Open RAN distributed items (O-DU) and Open RAN radio items (O-RU) emulation (IxNetwork / Novus) to validate SRv6 uSID-based transport community components’ efficiency, benchmarking latency traits of fronthaul site visitors below real-world situations specified by the O-RAN WG9: Open X-haul Transport Work Group. Which allows 5G success with strong Xhaul Transport Infrastructure.
• Keysight Technologies showcases 5G deployment readiness testing with its Network Emulator 3. O-RAN deployments, consisting of Open RAN distributed items (O-DU) and Open RAN radio items (O-RU), are required to adapt to stringent latency, delay variation and timing constraints. Keysight’s Network Emulator 3 reproduces real-world community habits, is used to check O-RAN conformance and interoperability, and validates software stability, SLA and efficiency below sub-optimal community situations.
• Keysight Technologies showcases IxVerify 5G O-RAN, a pre-silicon testing resolution in emulation targeted on O-RU system-on-chip (SoC) designs. The capability to ship O-RAN compliant testing stimulus into the emulated O-RU design ensures strong testing of the beamforming, precoding, decompression and iFFT blocks matching post-deployment real-life eventualities.
• Keysight Technologies and the University of Utah built-in Keysight’s RICtest O-RAN Near-Real-Time RIC check software program into Utah’s POWDER “lab as a service” automation framework. This integration gives a highly effective cloud-native platform for O-RAN testing that helps computerized, on-demand, workflow-driven check and validation of O-RAN Near-Real-Time RICs and xApps.
• Lenovo presents life like testbed atmosphere for venture design and experimentations with help for Machine Learning primarily based options. This emulation platform gives KPIs to the Near-RT RIC utilizing Mininet-WiFi emulator, following O-RAN structure and specs.
• LIONS showcases their O-RU interworking with a third-party RAN (O-DU/O-CU) utilizing the Open Fronthaul conformance and efficiency specs. Five use instances are demonstrated. Two instances are for O-RU/Open Fronthaul protecting CUS-Plane. The different three instances are for O-RAN end-to-end protecting efficiency at completely different cell places, connecting to business 5G core community, and below mobility of UE.
• Picocom demonstrates O-RAN break up 7.2 structure interoperability milestone with Picocom’s PC802 SoC, boards and PHY software program, along with Radisys’ Connect RAN 5G stack software program. Picocom’s silicon options each the O-DU and O-RU, connecting over the O-RAN Open Fronthaul Interface on this end-to-end demo.
• Reign, a new HTC subsidiary, demonstrates Open RAN Stack and Open Interface utilizing transportable 5G non-public community resolution (REIGN CORE) powered a number of experiences at Mobile World Congress, together with a scaled-down instance of driving vehicles remotely, AI-based 5G safety digital camera system, and cloud VR streaming to HTC VIVE Focus 3 concurrently on the similar non-public 5G community. Second half is validation of outcome of O-RAN E2E Test Specification (O-RAN.TIFG.E2E-Test) utilizing VIAVI testing tools.
• SageRAN demonstrates a full O-RAN white field small cell resolution that’s primarily based on an x86 platform with an FPGA Accelerator card that showcases a stand-alone end-to-end use case utilizing white field {hardware} for an indoor cell, which helps MIMO and all 4T4R.
• VIAVI Solutions demonstrates O-RAN Open Fronthaul efficiency testing of a actual O-RU, which is complementary to conformance testing. A buyer O-RU is validated over the 3GPP Physical Layer utilizing the VIAVI TM500 O-RU Tester along side the TMLite UE emulation to show that the greatest efficiency might be obtained from the O-RU. This considerably will increase the success fee of integration with a actual O-DU and End-to-End testing at later levels.
• Viettel showcases its latest O-RAN demo in the direction of the future of 5G referred to as Massive MIMO 32T32R. This demo assessments the 5G business UE OTA with Viettel 5G NSA gNodeB, which runs in Intel X86 COTS Server built-in with Viettel Outdoor Macro O-RU 32T32R, all constructed on O-RAN Category B structure. UE pace check give DL: 1066 Mbps (4 Layer) and UL: 60.8 Mbps (1 Layer).
• Viettel showcases an end-to-end Macro 8T8R system primarily based on O-RAN Open Fronthaul. This built-in system is verified utilizing a business UE/sim card, Viettel’s public community, UE Emulator from VIAVI, help SU-MIMO 4T4R as much as 1.7Gbps for downlink and 150Mbps for uplink.
• Viettel showcases a 5G business UE with Viettel 5G NSA gNodeB, which is operating Viettel’s CU/DU software program on the similar Intel x86 server and built-in with Viettel’s Mirco O-RU, all constructed on the O-RAN IP/UDP structure. The O-DU and O-RU are linked by way of a transport community. This is the first step on the method to Viettel’s C-RAN resolution.
• Wind River showcases a demonstration of CNF orchestration into a distributed cloud by the SMO over the O-RAN O2 interface. The Wind River Studio Conductor performing as an SMO communicates with the Wind River Studio Cloud Platform which is distributed cloud through O-RAN O2 interfaces.
• Wiwynn groups up with Intel and WNC to carry the profit of 5G to AOI and AMR purposes and remedy the manufacturing unit automation ache level. Wiwynn’s O-RAN primarily based 5G SA Sub-6 O-DU and O-CU resolution operating on Wiwynn EP100 fulfills the necessities of O-DU/O-CU and reduces the setup efforts.
• WNC demonstrates an O-RAN end-to-end system, with O-CU/O-DU operating on a Wiwynn x86 server, supporting NG Backhaul, F1 Midhaul and 10GbE eCPRI Fronthaul. The O-RU is a Sub-6 indoor picocell (4T4R with 24dBm output energy per channel). The similar system handed the third O-RAN PlugFest interoperability check and is presently deployed in a 5G non-public community belonging to a giant telecom operator in Taiwan.

About O-RAN ALLIANCE

The O-RAN ALLIANCE is a world-wide neighborhood of greater than 320 cellular operators, distributors, and analysis & educational establishments working in the Radio Access Network (RAN) business. As the RAN is a vital half 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 at the similar 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.

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