VIAVI Provides Benchmarking and Validation for Global O-RAN PlugFest, as Technology Gains Acceptance Across More Industry Organizations

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[{"type":"text","content":"CHANDLER, Ariz., Dec. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Viavi Solutions Inc. (VIAVI) (NASDAQ: VIAV) today shared the company's role in the Fall 2022 O-RAN PlugFest organized by the O-RAN ALLIANCE and hosted by industry leaders. The PlugFest involved a series of on-site demonstrations across multiple countries, conducted in October and November 2022.\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \nVIAVI provided benchmarking and validation for PlugFest tests and demonstrations at the following sites:\nUniversity of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory in Durham, New Hampshire, USATIP Community Lab hosted by Meta in Menlo Park, California, USAKyrio OTIC Lab hosted by CableLabs in Louisville, Colorado, USAi14y Lab hosted by Deutsche Telekom in Berlin, GermanyOrange, SA in Paris, FranceEURECOM in Biot, FranceTIM Innovation Lab in Torino, ItalyYokosuka Research Park hosted by NTT DOCOMO and another major service provider in Yokosuka City, Japan.\"The Fall 2022 O-RAN PlugFest followed a remarkable period in which more industry organizations aligned with the O-RAN ALLIANCE, driving adoption even more globally,\" commented Dr. Ian Wong, CTO Office, VIAVI and Co-Chair, Testing and Integration Focus Group, O-RAN ALLIANCE. \"An increasing number of major vendors are advancing the RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC), with Nokia being a notable participant in the PlugFest. ETSI adopted its first O-RAN specification, 'O-RAN Fronthaul Control, User and Synchronization Plane Specification v7.02.' And the Telecom Infra Project and O-RAN ALLIANCE committed to renewed alignment at FYUZ 2022. Growing acceptance of O-RAN specifications was evident in the strong collaboration, robust test cases and effective completion of activities during the PlugFest.\"\nThe VIAVI Test Suite for O-RAN Specifications supported conformance, performance, interoperability, and end-to-end testing:\nRIC – VIAVI demonstrated near real-time RIC platform conformance test and xApp performance benchmarking with RIC and xApps supplied by:Nokia near real-time RIC, and conformance of E2SM-KPM and E2SM-RC functionsTIM near real-time RIC, QoS xApp, Traffic Steering xAppCapgemini Engineering RIC, Traffic Steering and QoS xAppsHCLTech Traffic Steering and Predictive Load Balancing xAppNEC RIC, HCLTech Bouncer xAppThe VIAVI TeraVM RIC Test emulates E2 Nodes generating E2 procedures to test RIC compliance as well...

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