- O-RAN Global PlugFest Spring 2024 is hosted by 20 companies and
institutions across Asia,
Europe and America, with more than
40 participants
- The PlugFest focuses on six themes prioritized by the O-RAN
ALLIANCE
- The themes include O-RAN energy efficiency, O-RAN 4G/5G
white-box hardware, and O-RAN Fronthaul testing
BONN, Germany, April 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The O-RAN ALLIANCE
(O-RAN), fulfilling its mission to transform Radio Access Networks
(RAN) to be open, intelligent, virtualized and
fully interoperable, started this year's first PlugFest – the
O-RAN Global PlugFest Spring 2024.
O-RAN Global PlugFests are periodic events organized and
co-sponsored by O-RAN ALLIANCE to enable efficient progress of the
O-RAN ecosystem through well-organized testing and integration.
PlugFest participants gain early experience with conformance,
interoperability and E2E testing in cooperation with other industry
players. Achievements made at O-RAN PlugFests pave the way to O-RAN
certification, proving confidence in commercially available O-RAN
products.
O-RAN Global PlugFest Spring 2024 focuses on six themes
prioritized by the O-RAN ALLIANCE, aiming to accelerate
commercialization of O-RAN products and solutions from diverse
vendors around the world. These themes are:
- O-RAN Energy Consumption, Efficiency and Savings Testing –
carried out at five PlugFest venues
- O-RAN E2E Deployment Templates, DevOps, and Test Automation –
carried out at four PlugFest venues
- Demonstration of consistent and repeatable open fronthaul
testing in multiple labs – carried out at four PlugFest venues
- O-RAN System Testing with Layer 1 Acceleration – carried out at
two PlugFest venues
- O-RAN White-box Hardware diversity ecosystem – carried out at
one PlugFest venue
- Open Fronthaul Transport Testing with multiple O-RUs – carried
out at one PlugFest venue
O-RAN Global PlugFest Spring 2024 engages 20 hosts with over 40
companies and institutions that announced participation at the
event.
Hosts of O-RAN Global PlugFest Spring 2024 include:
- Asia & Pacific OTIC in
Singapore in cooperation with
North American OTIC in Boston Area
(Northeastern University) in USA
- Auray OTIC and Security Lab in Taiwan
- Digital Catapult in UK
- EURECOM in France
- Japan OTIC in Japan
- Korea Telecom in South
Korea
- Kyrio OTIC in USA
- LG Uplus in South Korea
- Nakao Lab in Japan
- Joint North American PlugFest in USA with University of New Hampshire, AT&T, DISH, NIST,
Northeastern University, Rutgers University/WINLAB, University of Utah, and Verizon
- XNET in cooperation with Asia
& Pacific OTIC by ritt7layers
The PlugFest is scheduled to finish and results to be announced
at the beginning of June 2024.
"O-RAN ALLIANCE continues to organize its global PlugFests to
facilitate the progress of open RAN industry from specifications to
commercialization," said Brian Daly,
Co-chair of O-RAN Technical Steering Committee, and AVP, AT&T
Services Inc. "PlugFest themes chosen by operators help to focus
efforts on accelerating commercial readiness of priority areas. We
welcome high interest from the O-RAN ecosystem to participate and
make progress in testing and integration at O-RAN PlugFests."
About O-RAN ALLIANCE
The O-RAN ALLIANCE is a
world-wide community of more than 300 mobile operators, vendors,
and research & academic institutions operating in the Radio
Access Network (RAN) industry. As the RAN is an essential part of
any mobile network, the O-RAN ALLIANCE's mission is to re-shape the
industry towards more intelligent, open, virtualized and fully
interoperable mobile networks. The new O-RAN specifications enable
a more competitive and vibrant RAN supplier ecosystem with faster
innovation to improve user experience. O-RAN based mobile networks
at the same time improve the efficiency of RAN deployments as well
as operations by mobile operators. To achieve this, the O-RAN
ALLIANCE publishes new RAN specifications, releases open software
for the RAN, and supports its members in integration and testing of
their implementations.
For more information, please visit www.o-ran.org.
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