KEYSIGHT ENABLES FIRST O-RAN ALLIANCE FRONTHAUL CERTIFICATE FOR ARRAYCOMM

Keysight Technologies, Inc. has enabled ArrayComm to obtain the first O-RAN ALLIANCE Fronthaul Certificate of Conformance for its open distributed unit (O-DU) with the Keysight Open RAN Architect (KORA) solutions. The certification was issued by the Asia & Pacific OTIC in PRC (APOP).

Awarded through the O-RAN ALLIANCE's Certification and Badging program, ArrayComm's Certification of Conformance verifies its O-DU is compliant with O-RAN fronthaul interface design specifications. O-RAN certifications are issued by Open Testing & Integration Centers (OTIC) such as APOP, which provide a collaborative, open, and impartial working environment to ensure consistency and quality of testing of Open RAN products and solutions.

The KORA test solution validating conformance of the ArrayComm O-DU consists of the P8822S RuSIM user equipment (UE) emulator for fronthaul, the P8850S CoreSIM Open RAN core emulator, and the Network Emulator 3 transport network impairment test instrument. The solution emulates a network to assess the compliance of the O-DUs to fronthaul test specifications as defined by the O-RAN ALLIANCE Working Group 4 (WG4).

KORA solutions enable conformance, interoperability, performance, and security testing across the entire Open RAN lifecycle with suites specifically tailored for chipset makers, software stack developers, network equipment manufacturers, mobile operators, and OTICs.