Dealer-neutral, ‘pay-as-you-go’ VALOR™ Lab-as-a-Provider democratizes and speeds Discoverable RAN interoperability, efficiency and safety trying out

CHANDLER, Ariz., Oct. 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — VIAVI Solutions Inc. (VIAVI) (NASDAQ: VIAV) has opened its VIAVI Automated Lab-as-a-Service (VALOR™) Discoverable RAN trying out facility in Chandler, Arizona with a ribbon-cutting rite attended via senior VIAVI control, shoppers, companions, govt officers and dignitaries. Funded via a handover from the U.S. Nationwide Telecommunications and Data Management (NTIA) Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund, VALOR trade in a completely automatic, viewable and independent Lab-as-a-Provider / Check-as-a-Provider suite for Discoverable RAN interoperability, efficiency and safety.

VALOR addresses the demanding situations to boost up Discoverable RAN adoption and inspire festival via offering get admission to to check features that, generally, have handiest been throughout the achieve of immense, established gamers. Now, with its extremely automatic, on-demand “pay-as-you-go” method to standardized trying out, VALOR simplifies the advance and deployment of Discoverable RAN applied sciences, providing brandnew entrants and start-ups a pathway to U.S. certification with out the will for important funding in {hardware} and instrument.

Complementary to maximum stream present {industry} trying out labs, VALOR facilitates higher readiness for the certification, badging and acceptance checks at OTICs and CSP labs and is the primary take a look at provider to be licensed via the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) for his or her gadget efficiency certification program. A devoted on-line portal permits shoppers to simply join the provider, arrange and time table checks and generate studies optimized for era building, gadget verification and pre-certification efficiency, safety and pre-deployment simulation.

VALOR brings in combination the NITRO Wireless Open RAN Test Suite, the VAMOS (VIAVI Automation Control and Orchestration Machine) unified framework for hybrid bodily and cloud lab trying out, and applied sciences from industry-leading companions. Those come with a joint O-RU testbed with Rohde & Schwarz for O-RU conformance and community power preserve checks, a immense ETS-Lindgren RF anechoic chamber for Immense MIMO and beamforming over-the-air (OTA) efficiency trying out, and ‘blonde’ Discoverable RAN-compliant O-CU, O-DU and O-RU reference applied sciences from Fujitsu, SOLiD and Capgemini.

VALOR leverages VIAVI’s confirmed efficiency and interoperability checks old during the {industry} for 3GPP and Discoverable RAN with cloud, judgement, automation and virtual dual era. Services and products come with TM500 O-RU and O-DU and TeraVM O-CU subsystem conformance, efficiency and interoperability trying out, and end-to-end trying out with core emulation and TeraVM RAN situation generator RIC/SMO checks masking conformance and function validation and coaching of rApps and xApps. The provider will in the end trade in over 500 take a look at circumstances compliant with O-RAN WG4, WG5, WG11, TIFG and 3GPP specs.

“The grand opening of the VALOR lab is an important step in democratizing Open RAN testing for technology vendors by providing them with rapid access to comprehensive end-to-end solutions for everything from product development to performance stress tests,” stated Oleg Khaykin, President and Government Officer, VIAVI. “Supporting the services of existing industry test labs, VALOR closes existing test gaps and is set to play a key role in accelerating Open RAN adoption and encouraging new entrants to the Open RAN ecosystem.”

“We know testing and evaluation is critical to Open RAN’s success and look forward to seeing the impact of these grants for years to come,” stated Sarah Skaluba, Particular Coverage Marketing consultant for Telecom Coverage and the Innovation Treasure, NTIA.

Quotes from the VALOR Chandler Lab Brilliant Opening Rite

Telecom Infra Mission
“We are thrilled to congratulate VIAVI on the opening of their VALOR Lab. This important milestone underscores the industry’s commitment to advancing the Open RAN ecosystem through comprehensive testing frameworks. As the first TIP-authorized test lab, VALOR’s cutting-edge virtual testing environment enhances TIP’s capabilities, driving innovation and ensuring robust, high-performance network solutions. By strengthening supply chain resilience and accelerating the global adoption of Open RAN technologies, our collaboration is set to provide operators with more flexible and cost-effective solutions. We’re excited about the positive impact this partnership will have on the industry.”
Kristian Toivo, Government Director, TIP

Rohde & Schwarz
“We are looking forward to strengthening our partnership with VIAVI Solutions, which has experienced substantial global growth. The inauguration of the VALOR Lab represents a pivotal advancement in bolstering the Open RAN ecosystem. At Rohde & Schwarz, our commitment to supporting O-RAN installations in the US remains unwavering, and we are enthusiastic about delivering local assistance for this initiative. Together, Rohde & Schwarz with VIAVI Solutions will continue to innovate intelligent solutions for our customers, driving progress in the industry.”
Frank Dunn, President and CEO, Rohde & Schwarz USA, Inc.

Fujitsu
“Fujitsu is committed to accelerating Open RAN through multivendor network interoperability, performance and security. With the addition of Fujitsu O-RAN compliant radio units, vRAN and transport equipment to the VALOR lab, we are embracing cooperative, open and impartial testing, thanks to VIAVI and the U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration.”
Annie Bogue, Running Officer, Fujitsu Community Communications, Inc.

SOLiD
“SOLiD is gratified to contribute our C-Band radio equipment to the VIAVI VALOR lab to support cooperative, impartial testing of open 5G network architectures. As a full supporter and major contributor to Open RAN development, SOLiD looks forward to the advancement of interoperability enabled by the VALOR Lab, as well as continued growth of the ecosystem overall.”
Yong Hoon Kang, Ph.D., Era Officer, SOLiD

ETS-Lindgren
“We are excited to see VIAVI’s innovative approach for OTA testing of base stations. Our collaboration with their talented team resulted in a customized chamber to bring the next generation of OTA base station test methodology to the industry.”
Joel Kellogg, Matter Subject Professional and International Director of Advertising and marketing, ETS-Lindgren

Purple Hat
“The importance of fully tested and interoperable solutions is a key challenge service providers face when modernizing their radio access networks (RANs). Red Hat is pleased to collaborate with VIAVI and the other partners involved in the VIAVI VALOR Lab to create pre-integrated, multi-vendor open RAN solutions that can benefit from the use of an open source and cloud-native application platform to help reduce complexity and cost, and to drive new revenue opportunities.” 
Mark Longwell, Director, Telco and Edge Alliances, Hybrid Platforms Industry Unit, Purple Hat

About VIAVI
VIAVI (NASDAQ: VIAV) is a world supplier of community take a look at, tracking and word answers for telecommunications, cloud, enterprises, first responders, army, aerospace and railway. VIAVI could also be a pacesetter in luminous control applied sciences for three-D sensing, anti-counterfeiting, client electronics, commercial, automobile, govt and aerospace programs. Be told extra about VIAVI at www.viavisolutions.com. Observe us on VIAVI Perspectives, LinkedIn and YouTube.

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