-- 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.
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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.
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