O-RAN Test and Integration Focus Group – 2^nd O-RAN Plugfest/PoC – CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

The O‐RAN Alliance is preparing for 2^nd O‐RAN Plugfest/PoC in September 2020 which aims to accelerate the maturity of O‐RAN products and solutions via conducting the conformance and interoperability tests.

The plugfest will take place in four venues with different scopes: Asia, Europe, India and North America

The presentation and demonstration of results and outcomes (incl. workshops, readout and wrap-up meetings) will take place from September 21 to October 2, 2020 (after O-RAN face to face meeting).

Call for Participation

We are kindly inviting the companies to join the plugfest/PoC[1]. If a company (vendors, integrators, SW developers, test equipment or service providers, etc.) is interested to participate in one or multiple plugfest/PoC venues, please contact the relevant person with the necessary details. Final scope, goals and arrangement of plugfest/PoC venue will be agreed with the involved participants and available HW & SW.

[1] The number of participants in the given venue may be limited due to reasonable reason (e.g. space limitation) based on non-discriminatory basis (e.g. a first-come first‑served basis).

Asia – “O-RAN Plugfest/PoC in Beijing”

• Host: China Telecom, China Mobile, China Unicom, NTT Docomo
• Contact: Liu Yang
• High-level scope:
  • Multi-vendor interoperability testing for indoor scenario
    • OpenFH decoupling
    • SW/HW decoupling
  • Performance and Function evaluation of O-RU as well as FH interface conformance test by the involvement of O-DU simulator
  • Proof of concept of testing of RIC, e.g. E2 interface

North America – “Joint O-RAN & ONAP Plugfest/PoC in NYC metro area Innovation Zone”

• Host: AT&T, Bell Canada, Verizon
• Contact: Tracy Van Brakle
• High-level scope:
  • O-RAN + SMO (ONAP-based) joint test cases and scenarios
    • Based on ONAP Frankfurt and Guilin releases
  • Multi-operator/multi-vendor resource pooling + dynamic 5G slicing for SnR (Search and Rescue) scenario
  • Wide-area optimization
  • IUT: A1(Non-RT/Near-RT RIC), O1, E2
  • Demonstration and evaluation of integration of A1 and O1 with SMO based on ONAP

India

• Host: Reliance Jio
• Contact: TBD
• High-level scope:
  • Management and orchestration with elements of Radio Intelligent Controller (RIC) along with O-RAN compliant O-RU and O-DU. Main focuses include the productization of relevant O-RAN compliant components for operator deployment scenarios
    • Interoperability of flexible O-RAN compliant O-RUs for micro cell scenarios
    • Interoperability of O-RAN WG3 Spec based RIC with O-DU
    • Cloud based management and orchestration along with RIC for 5G deployment scenarios

Online Meetings Schedule To Substitute Canceled Paris F2F Meetings.  See Events#schedule

O-RAN SC PoC - non real-time RIC interfacing with O-RAN WG4 Open Fronthaul M-Plane specification

Open Networking Summit North America - April 3-5 in San Jose