ORAN Automation test suite
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With multiple elements potentially supplied by many vendors, it is critical to confirm interoperability of the system as a whole. Delart’s O-RAN test solutions deliver the performance and flexibility required to support evolving O-RAN technologies. Our automated, single user experience provides the end user with real-time emulation at scale to accomplish functional, interoperability, performance, and compliance testing with the highest degree of quality
Challenges Building ORAN/OpenRAN Testbeds
New
Contrary to what many believe, O-RAN based system are new & fragile, the maturity of OEM and test equipment is low
Evolving
Evolving O-RAN Specifications
High Budget
High Budget Constraints to setup labs
Expertise
Resource expertise and skillset is developing
Delart’s solutions
COmplete Support for test needs
DVT,PVT Module Testing
Module Testing
- Validate proto modules for functional, design and performance.
- Focuses on design specifications and works on parameters fine tuning and characterization.
- Some level of modules integration done for DL, UL chain validation
Conformance Unit Testing
UNIT Testing
- Validate conformance of a particular product: RU or DU. E. g., product development.
- Focuses on C/U/M/S planes, and e.g., RF conformance
- Referenced to O-RAN CUS & M plane specs, and e.g., 3GPP specs
IOT
Interoperability (IOT)
- Validate interop between DU and RU using bookended vendor or multiple vendors. E. g., solution development.
- Exercise whole Open Fronthaul interface. Referenced to O-RAN IOT Profiles specs
End to End Acceptance Testing
End-to-End / OAT
- Validate end-to-end functions, performance, key features, services, OAM, etc.
- Operator driven requirements
- HLD/LLD definition
- Some level of conformance & interoperability has been demonstrated
RU Conformance
RF
- Complete catalogue of RCT & ORAN Conformance test plans
- One of first in industry to provide complete solution for RF UL test cases
- 3GPP 36.141 (LTE) & 3GPP 38.141 (5G-NR) – FDD & TDD
- DSS
- NB-IoT
CU - Plane
- O-RU Category – Cat A & Cat B
- eCPRI
- Application Layer Fragmentation
- Delay Management
- Compression Methods
- Section Types
- Digital Beamforming
S - Plane
- PTP – G.8275.1 FTS Profile
- SyncE – G.8262/G.8264
- LLS C1 & LLS C3 Configuration
M - Plane
- Hybrid and Hierarchical Architecture
- IPv4, IPv6
- VLAN Discovery
- DHCPv4 Option 43
- Fault Management
DU Conformance
Benchmarking
- Core (CPU) utilization
- Memory Utilization
- Protocol Stack KPI benchmarking
- Stability
CU - Plane
- eCPRI
- Application Layer Fragmentation
- Delay Management
- Compression Methods
- Section Types
- Digital Beamforming
S - Plane
- PTP – G.8275.1 FTS Profile
- SyncE – G.8262/G.8264
- LLS C1 & LLS C3 Configuration
M - Plane
- Hybrid and Hierarchical Architecture
- IPv4, IPv6
- VLAN Discovery
- DHCPv4 Option 43
- Fault Management
Interoperability
Architecture
- Develop IOT profile ar per O-RAN WG.4 IOT Specifications
- Test catalogues for various IOT profile
- End to End system test cases as per 3GPP standards
- Test bed architecture
- Scalable Architectures
Bring-up
- CU, DU & RU elements bring-up
- Expertise in multiple platform bring-up (RHOCP, VMware, Windriver etc)
- Integration
Validate
- IOT tests cases across C/U/S/M Planes
- Identifying Issues/bugs
- Troubleshooting
- Reporting
Delivery
- Test plans
- High Level Design (HLD)
- Low Level Design (LLD)
- Test Reports
- Blue Prints
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