RAN Intelligent Controller At the O-RAN Alliance Plugfest at the end of last year, VIAVI, alongside partners AT&T, Samsung and Nokia, demonstrated an end-to-end traffic steering use case based on a number of open source components. One of these was the near real-time RAN Intelligent Controller platform, or RIC. Central to the demo was VIAVI’s […]
Benchmarking O-RAN performance O-RAN was big news last year, and a recent announcement from the O-RAN Alliance – one of the main bodies encouraging open RAN innovation, highlights the importance of benchmarking and testing in helping operators and others develop and get value from Open RAN deployments. Recently, the O-RAN Alliance launched a Minimal Viable […]
O-RAN testing at Plugfest 2020 EANTC and VIAVI Solutions took part in the Joint European O-RAN and TIP Plugfest 2020, part of the second global O-RAN ALLIANCE plugfest, where we together demonstrated automated end-to-end (E2E) O-RAN tests at the Open Test and Integration Center (OTIC) lab. This included testing multi-vendor pairings. EANTC and VIAVI joined the plugfest […]
Learn about VIAVI 5G Solutions 5G is in its infancy, which means challenges – in terms of testing, launching and funding new networks – still remain. Yet major industry players including Apple, Google, Ericsson and Nokia have announced their participation in industry research initiatives to develop 6G. How can we incorporate learnings from the ongoing […]
“We will be able to achieve new levels of operational automation, flexibility and adaptability.” This is how Verizon described the networks of the future. Or, to be more specific, this is how the company described its new cloud-native 5G core network, which it says will be launched in 2021. The quote isn’t just a salesy […]
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