Keysight participates in the Global Plugfest organized by O-RAN Alliance
Keysight 5G Testing Solutions Help Accelerate Multi-Provider Open Radio Access Network Readiness
Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS), a leading technology company that helps businesses, service providers and governments accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world, announced its participation in the second global Plugfest event organized by the O-RAN Alliance to accelerate the preparation of the multi-vendor O-RAN compatible network infrastructure.
Keysight contributed to the Event, held at several sites between July 27e and September 25e, with a wide range of 5G radio access network (RAN), 5G core (5GC) and new 5G radio interface (NR) test solutions. Keysight’s 5G hardware and software platforms have been used by ten suppliers of O-RAN Compliant Radio Units (O-RUs), Distributed Units (O-DUs) and Centralized Units (O-CUs) in the TIM innovation labs in Turin, Italy, operated by TIM, Italy’s largest mobile operator. The goal was to verify more than forty-three test cases specified by Telecom infrastructure project (TIP) and the O-RAN Alliance.
“We are delighted to be working with TIM to verify the interoperability between O-RUs, O-DU and O-CU and the compliance of these network elements with the latest O-RAN specifications”, said Giampaolo Tardioli, vice president and Managing Director of Keysight. network access company. “Keysight’s end-to-end performance testing approach supports basic network and infrastructure providers, such as base station manufacturers and small cell and O-RU manufacturers.
The results of the event highlight the readiness of O-RAN standard. Accelerating the development and deployment of open, interoperable, disaggregated and standards-based solutions is increasing the number of O-RAN vendors, increasing the demand for Keysight’s portfolio of integrated test solutions. As the publisher of the O-RAN fronthaul compliance test specification, Keysight enables a large ecosystem to deliver innovative solutions to mobile operators who wish to create a multi-vendor environment for agile 5G service delivery.
The following Keysight 5G solutions contributed to the success of the event:
About Keysight Technologies
Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS) is a leading technology company that helps businesses, service providers, and governments accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world. Keysight solutions optimize networks and bring electronic products to market faster and at lower cost with offerings ranging from design simulation to validation of prototypes, manufacturing testing and optimization in networks and environments. cloud. Customers span the global communications ecosystem, aerospace and defense, automotive, energy, semiconductor, and general electronics end markets. Keysight generated $ 4.2 billion in revenue in fiscal 2020. More information is available at www.keysight.com.
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