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O-RAN Solutions
End-to-end performance verification of 5G network elements
Open RAN (O-RAN) wireless networks are moving toward a virtualized, disaggregated RAN with standard interfaces. Keysight’s end-to-end Open RAN Architect solutions enable conformance, interoperability, performance, and security testing across the entire lifecycle with suites specifically tailored for chipset makers, software stack developers, network equipment manufacturers (NEMs), mobile operators, and Open Test and Integration Centers (OTICs).
Explore our Open RAN Architect solutions and suites for answers to your Open RAN test needs and to simplify sharing of results across the workflow.
KORA Solutions
KORA offers integrated solutions that accelerate the development, integration, and deployment of O-RAN-compliant equipment. The suites are tailored to the supply chain workflow. Users can uniquely access a common set of solutions to simplify the sharing of results across the workflow from pre-silicon to cloud deployments.
KORA Chip Designer Suite
Enables chipset vendors to verify compliance of O-RAN designs to O-RAN specifications using O-RAN simulation tools prior to tape out, reducing development time
KORA NEM Suite
Verify interoperability and compliance of hardware and software to O-RAN specifications, ensuring each function integrates as expected into a multi-vendor open RAN
KORA Operator Suite
Verify conformance, interoperability, and performance of subsystems that drive new 5G service revenue opportunities
KORA OTIC Suite
Validate conformance, interoperability, and performance using tools that adhere to the ORAN specifications
with thorough, repeatable, and automated processes
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"Our relationship with Keysight enables a growing small cell ecosystem to leverage open RAN standards. We're happy to support small cell vendors speed up validation of new designs using Keysight's integrated 5G test solutions and small cell reference designs using the Qualcomm 5G RAN platform."
Puneet Sethi, senior director of product management, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
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"In this era of pervasive and connected intelligence, disaggregated network functions using O-RAN-compliant interfaces will help the industry realize the full potential of a virtualized network architecture. Strong technology partners who are committed to driving rapid innovation, such as Keysight with the new Open RAN Studio O-DU emulation software, allows Xilinx to accelerate the deployment of our adaptive computing technology to create highly agile platforms that support the stringent demands of 5G."
Dan Mansur, vice president, marketing, Wired and Wireless Group, Xilinx, Inc.
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"Keysight's cutting-edge tools, developer support, and leading 5G expertise, enable Mavenir to effectively validate our radio access network solutions. Keysight's solutions improve our ability to flexibly deliver high-quality software to our telco customer base and better support the OpenRAN ecosystem."
Mikael Rylander, general manager of the Radio Access business unit at Mavenir
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"Keysight has provided Innogence access to an integrated edge-to-core portfolio that is critical to efficiently validating each network component and verifying their performance when part of multi-vendor RAN. We rely on Keysight's solutions to establish interoperability between O-RAN compliant radio units (O-RUs) and distributed units (O-DUs), across the protocol stack, from the physical layer to the application layer."
Chun YIN, deputy general manager at Innogence
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"We rely on partners such as Keysight to effectively develop and validate open RAN standards-based network elements, including small cells and O-RAN compliant radio and distributed units. Working with Keysight, with cross-domain expertise, enables CIG to derive insights critical in the design and manufacturing of a flexible infrastructure that serves diverse use cases for consumers and vertical industries."
Haibo Zhao, chief technology officer at CIG
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"Keysight’s end-to-end 5G test solutions enable us to validate the interoperability and performance of our open vRAN solution, which empowers mobile operators to automate operations and provide new, revenue-generating services."
Srinivas Gudladana, head of India operations at Altiostar -
"We rely on end-to-end 5G test solutions, from the edge of the RAN to the core of the network, to validate a connected portfolio of products developed for disaggregated network architectures. Keysight's UEE test solutions allow us to efficiently address specifications set by both 3GPP and O-RAN standards organizations, helping to ensure that our solutions comply with evolving market demands."
Zhong Cheng, technical director at Comba Telecom
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"Keysight's solutions enable Baicells to offer high-performing OpenRAN solutions that will meet the coverage and data rates mobile operators need to deliver a wide range of 5G and multi-RAN services. As a provider of OpenRAN systems, ranging from access base stations and backhaul, to evolved packet core (EPC) and 5GC, we rely on proven test platforms with wide industry adoption."
Kristy Chen, vice president of product marketing at Baicells
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"SOLiD understands the significant role ubiquitous wireless coverage plays in keeping people connected and safe in a rapidly changing world. This is why we choose to partner with Keysight, a company with 5G test solutions that enable us to accelerate performance validation of SOLiD's O-RAN radio units."
Dr. Dae-Young Kim, executive vice president of the Global Wireless business unit at SOLiD
Associated O-RAN Solutions
O-RAN SoC Design Testing with Emulation
IxVerify 5G O-RAN provides O-RU ASIC/ SoC design testing in emulation in compliance with the 3GPP standards. The ability to push both eCPRI traffic as well as time-domain IQ Data from a fully virtual environment into the 5G O-RU emulated ASIC/ SoC allows the designers to easily simulate complex Uplink and Downlink scenarios in pre-silicon phase.
In conjunction with Open RAN Studio Player, IxVerify 5G O-RAN ensures reuse of the test stimulus between pre- and post-silicon testing.
Keysight’s collaboration with its EDA partners guarantees a smooth interaction with the hardware emulators, high usability and testing cycles hundreds of times faster than any other solution on the market.
IxVerify 5G O-RAN
Validate emulated 5G O-RU ASIC/ SoC design
O-RAN Transport Test
The Keysight 5G RAN Transport test solution enables validation of the important technology pillars of the RAN transport architecture, including time synchronization, deterministic transport or time-sensitive networking (TSN), eCPRI, security encryption, and software-defined network (SDN). The broad product portfolio covers conformance, functionality, performance benchmarking and high scale load testing of the 5G RAN transport.
Novus SFP28/QSFP28 High-Density 100/25/10GE Load Module
High-scale control/data plane traffic generator with time-sensitive network testing for 5G RAN transport validation
IxNetwork
L2-3 network infrastructure performance testing that scales to business needs
Virtual Infrastructure Test
Virtualization is a core principle of the O-RAN Alliance. Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) is key to implementation of the O-RAN architecture as well as other advanced 5G capabilities, including network slicing and mobile edge computing (MEC). Operators must ensure accurate dimensioning and configuration of the NFV Infrastructure (NFVi) in order to sustain the workloads required by the Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) or Cloud Native Network Functions (CNFs) that run on it.
Keysight’s Cloud Peak is a web application designed to rigorously benchmark the performance of virtualized network infrastructures. By deploying emulated workloads on top of the NFVi system under test, Cloud Peak provides insights into the capability of the NFVi to sustain the required VNF / CNF workloads.
Cloud Peak
Validate virtual network infrastructure
O-RAN Design and Simulation
Keysight’s PathWave Design software solutions provide the simulation capabilities needed to explore architectures and challenges of O-RU and O-DU components in O-RAN systems. Accurate RF and baseband system modeling, high-speed digital ethernet link characterization, and instrument grade 5G NR standard measurements give designers a proven O-RAN design workflow.
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