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Elastic virtual testbeds to accelerate ORAN development
Keysight 5G ORAN emulators enable early-stage teams to conduct pre-silicon and system-level validation of ORAN–compliant radio (O-RUs) and distributed (O-DUs) units. They fully emulate the ORAN protocol stack—management (M-plane), control/user (C/U-plane), and synchronization (S-plane)—for precise functional, timing, and conformance testing without hardware. Elastic virtual testbeds integrate with Keysight Open RAN Studio, Signal Studio Pro, Vector Signal Analysis software, and leading third-party tools. This ecosystem supports multi-vendor interoperability, accelerates debugging, and streamlines root cause analysis across the ORAN lifecycle. Request a quote for one of our popular configurations today. Need help selecting? Check out the resources below.
Multi-system integration
Integrates with Keysight Open RAN Studio, Vector Signal Analysis, and Signal Studio Pro, plus Cadence and Synopsys simulators, enabling full-stack testing.
Fronthaul behavior
Supports complete ORAN protocol stacks across M-plane, C/U-plane, and S-plane, including 7.2x functional split conformance and timing validation.
Pre-silicon verification
Enables validation of radio unit and distributed unit RTL, firmware, and protocol behavior in virtual testbeds, reducing hardware dependency.
Full-stack insight
Provides detailed logging and protocol-level statistics to support validation and compliance testing to accelerate issue isolation.
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Emulation options
Cadence emulator, Synopsys emulator, Siemens emulator
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Number of interfaces
32 to Unlimited
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Protocol support
eCPRI/ IQ Data
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License options
1-year
Most popular configurations
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Frequently asked questions
Keysight 5G ORAN is a pre-silicon protocol load test solution designed to validate 5G and future 6G ORAN radio unit (O-RU) SoC designs under real-world, full-load conditions. It helps engineers emulate massive MIMO traffic patterns, test beamforming and precoding functionality, and analyze IQ data compression performance over Ethernet and AXI/JESD interfaces. By providing early, virtualized testing before silicon is fabricated, 5G ORAN software minimizes costly design errors, shortens development cycles, and helps ensure O-RU chipsets comply with ORAN standards for robust deployment in disaggregated networks.
Yes, 5G O-RAN is engineered to handle complex massive MIMO testing, generating high-throughput traffic across multiple carriers and antenna arrays to simulate realistic network loads. It validates synchronization between ORAN functional splits, checks precise timing across signal paths, and verifies critical features like beamforming, precoding, and IQ compression. This capability ensures O-RU designs can meet performance demands for low latency and high spectral efficiency, crucial for delivering services like ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC) and enhanced mobile broadband in 5G and beyond.
Yes, 5G O-RAN software offers a robust automation framework that integrates REST APIs and Python scripting, making it easy for engineers to automate complex test scenarios and regression suites. It’s designed for distributed, collaborative development environments, enabling teams across the globe to share configurations, test cases, and results seamlessly.
The tool provides real-time statistics, control/user-plane message analysis, and insightful performance metrics, empowering engineers to quickly identify issues and optimize O-RU designs for compliance and efficiency. In addition, the software supports continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, allowing automated testing to be embedded directly into product development workflows.
Engineers can schedule large-scale test campaigns, run them in parallel across different sites, and aggregate the results in centralized dashboards. This ensures consistent validation, faster troubleshooting, and streamlined interoperability testing in multi-vendor environments. Together, these capabilities make the software well-suited for modern agile development practices and globally distributed engineering teams.