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Ensuring Open RAN’s Promise
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Ensuring Open RAN delivers expected cost, innovation, and flexibility benefits requires navigation of a complex landscape of rapidly evolving standards and interoperability challenges.
Open RAN (O-RAN) was developed to increase competition, lower costs, drive innovation, and power new service models. But its disaggregated, virtualized O-RAN Radio Unit (O-RU), O-RAN Distributed Unit (O-DU) and O-RAN Central Unit (O-CU) evolve constantly and are often developed independently by different vendors. Operators must be confident this emerging technology can overcome interoperability challenges and perform just as well as traditional RAN.
Open RAN’s adaptable architecture and multi-vendor interoperability requirements result in radically increased complexity. To manage this explosion of network and vendor configurations, automated testing methodologies empower providers and vendors to continuously validate new infrastructure. But simply ensuring Open RAN works isn’t enough. O-RAN testing must extend beyond conformance.
Achieving Open RAN’s cost, innovation, and flexibility benefits requires comprehensive, automated end-to-end testing of the entire ecosystem to rapidly validate conformance, interoperability, performance, capacity, and security of new infrastructure.
Real-Time, Realistic Open RAN Emulation & Testing
Open RAN architecture performance and reliability promises considerable advantages over traditional networks but requires automated, rigorous testing to ensure it will perform at scale in commercial networks. Open RAN stakeholders must be confident new radio configurations and architectures will interoperate and perform as expected.
Spirent's O-RAN test solution comprehensively validates Open RAN conformance, performance, capacity, and security under real-time, real-world conditions. Supporting evolving standards, our O-RAN test solution delivers wraparound testing of individual O-RAN nodes as well as end-to-end testing of integrated O-RAN networks.
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