Rohde & Schwarz and VIAVI Solutions, Inc. have supported the European OTIC in Berlin in the process of awarding O-RAN conformance certification for international markets. The certification of an indoor O-RU of the LPRU-series from VVDN Technologies was completed according to O-RAN specified processes and procedures as defined by the O-RAN ALLIANCE. This marks the first certification accomplished by a European test lab.

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Nokia recently announced that it has successfully trialed an innovative new solution that enables Android smartphone users to purchase and activate network slices on-demand from their operator. The move, which will be available to Android 14 users, will allow end users to enhance their experience across a wide range of applications such as gaming, streaming, broadcasting, and social media. The solution enables operators to monetize 5G slicing services, for example, by offering premium network slices that can be purchased in selected areas based on customer demand. [Read more…]

Viavi Solutions Inc. (VIAVI) (NASDAQ: VIAV) today shared the company’s role in the Spring 2023 O-RAN PlugFest organized by the O-RAN ALLIANCE and hosted by industry leaders. The PlugFest involved a series of on-site demonstrations in North America, Europe and Asia, conducted in April and May. As the O-RAN ecosystem matures, testing has evolved from proving that the technology works to demonstrating that the industry can deliver robustly designed, secure network elements that meet the business demands of operators. [Read more…]

Infovista, the global leader in network lifecycle automation (NLA), recently announced new user experience testing solutions for the most resource intensive – and latency sensitive – OTT applications and interactive 5G services. Innovatively combining various generic testing techniques, sophisticated real live service traffic pattern emulations and machine learning (ML) algorithms, Infovista enables mobile operators to fully test not only their networks, but also the user experience of any native or OTT applications and services running over them. The Infovista user experience testing portfolio includes sQLEAR, Infovista’s VoLTE and VoNR voice quality testing solution, and new generic testing solutions for OTT voice services, OTT video streaming, and interactive services including e-gaming, remote drone control and video conferencing. [Read more…]

The number of providers who are adopting MEF LSO APIs to standardize and automate negotiation of services with customer and suppliers has increased significantly. The APIs currently cover serviceability, quoting and ordering of services and are already being used in production with many providers. AT&T was one of the first providers to adopt LSO APIs with more than a dozen suppliers already in production, increasing to around twenty suppliers by the end of this year. In the past each supplier had to work directly from the standards specification documents and API definitions to develop their implementation. This often led to differences in interpretations and basic errors resulting in prolonged and problematic interoperability testing. As the number of suppliers who implement the LSO APIs increases the need for an efficient, scalable means to onboard and test interoperability is apparent. [Read more…]

Infovista, the global leader in network lifecycle automation (NLA), recently announced Automated Single Site Verification (SSV) to automate 5G cell site validation, saving time and cost for mobile operators deploying and testing new and existing multi-site 5G networks. The new automated 5G network testing solution reduces testing time and errors by only testing and collecting required service-specific testing KPIs. Automated SSV enables automatic sweet spot selection by not only predicting where to drive and what tests to perform, but also which hot spots and critical areas should be tested and then autonomously conducting the network testing routine. This automation of network testing processes removes trial and error and significantly reduces the time to market of 5G. [Read more…]

Infovista, the global leader in network lifecycle automation (NLA), today announced its 360° Assurance set of solutions to support predictive, real-time and automated customer experience assurance across any operator’s end-to-end network, from a single application. The 360° Assurance solutions provide unified visibility and automation capabilities designed to support and enable more efficient service operations driven by CSPs’ end customer experiences, for specific services, including SLA-backed 5G network slicing, mobile voice (VoNR), fixed voice and SD-WAN. They are designed to accelerate the monetization of differentiated Quality of Experience (QoE) and new business services based on advanced network connectivity, at scale, whilst reducing the cost of advanced customer experience assurance scenarios through automation. [Read more…]

Currently Digital Service Providers (DSPs) traditional field service operations involve more human effort such as manual order entry, multiple follow-up activities while creating truck roll appointments. Since the truck roll appointments are created manually and without thorough assessment and validation, results in many non-productive dispatches. For example, multiple truck rolls for the same customer account for different types of service issues can incur an unnecessary cost to DSPs. [Read more…]