NI and Spirent Announce First Comprehensive Test Solution for OpenRAN O-RU Customers
05 Junho 2023 - 8:59AM
Business Wire
Industry-leading Technology Enables Customers
to Increase Test Speed While Reducing Costs
NI (NASDAQ: NATI) and Spirent Communications today announced the
first and only O-RU (Radio Unit) test solution that uses
application layer testing with any commercial device, providing
comprehensive, real-time O-RU validation. This unique capability
enables customers to validate their systems faster and in a
real-world environment while reducing costs - all in one highly
capable validation solution.
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Traditional testing of O-RAN systems has been very
time-intensive and cost-prohibitive due to its need for engineers
to manually test their systems from beginning to end. Built on
common technologies, the Spirent/NI joint solution combines
Spirent’s software and emulation environment, including pre-built
test cases, with NI’s high-performance instrumentation, providing a
robust and integrated O-RU validation solution that improves time
to market with full automation through a single, intuitive GUI
while also minimizing instrument cost and footprint.
“Spirent and NI have a long history of providing joint solutions
that enable our customers to accelerate the production of their
products,” said Chen Chang, Senior Director, Strategic Business
Development, NI. “Combining Spirent’s best-in-class methodology
with NI’s versatile and powerful product lineup is a critical step
in standardizing and accelerating O-RAN ORU development.”
“Major chipset developers, equipment manufacturers, and carriers
around the world are already benefitting from NI and Spirent
working together to provide innovative solutions,” said James
Kimery, Vice President of Product Management, Lifecycle Service
Assurance, Spirent. “This latest solution for the Open RAN space
demonstrates how our continued collaboration is addressing critical
testing gaps created by disaggregating the RAN that will expand the
market by unambiguously validating true multivendor
interoperability.”
The solution wraps the O-RU with a real-time O-DU emulator
through a fully compliant O-RAN 7.2 interface, a CU emulator, a
core network emulator, and a commercial UE emulator for real-world
Interoperability Testing (IOT) to deliver a testbed capable of
running real-world test scenarios in the lab. Customers can also
use a commercial device in place of the UE emulator to validate all
timing, full throughput including 4x4 MIMO, and any system-level
test that an O-RU would experience in a real-world deployment
scenario to test true performance and interoperability at a
functional level rather than at the interface. On the production
side, NI also has an O-RAN O-RU APT test system which uses the same
O-DU emulation and combines this with NI’s PXIe-5841 VST for
parametric measurements for best-in-class efficiency with unmatched
measurement accuracy.
This test system is highly configurable, real-time, and ORAN FH
compliant. It enables customers to configure the O-DU to emulate
various timing profiles, test corner cases, and validate the system
performance under real-time conditions. In addition, having the
same test systems used in validation facilitates a streamlined O-RU
development process that connects validation to production and
drastically reduces test time, cost, and development effort.
About Spirent
Spirent Communications plc. (LSE: SPT) is the leading global
provider of automated test and assurance solutions for networks,
cybersecurity, and positioning. The company provides innovative
products, services and managed solutions that address the test,
assurance, and automation challenges of a new generation of
technologies, including 5G, SD-WAN, cloud, autonomous vehicles and
beyond. From the lab to the real world, Spirent helps companies
deliver on their promise to their customers of a new generation of
connected devices and technologies. For more information, please
visit www.spirent.com and follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter and
Facebook.
About NI:
At NI, we bring together the people, ideas and technology so
forward thinkers and creative problem solvers can take on
humanity’s biggest challenges. From data and automation to research
and validation, we provide the tailored, software-connected systems
engineers and enterprises need to Engineer Ambitiously™ every
day.
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