Scope
FlexRAN is a vRAN reference implementation for virtualized cloud-enabled radio access networks. FlexRAN is not an open-source project. It is provided here as an example of a 5G application running on INF.
This document provides details on how to build FlexRAN software for INF, generate a containerized version of the prebuilt FlexRAN binaries, and deploy on INF solution.
Note:
The steps in this guide are based on FlexRAN 22.03. The instructions are subject to change in future releases of FlexRAN.
And only CentOS based INF image is verified.
Intended Audience
The intended audience for this document are software engineers and system architects who want to design and develop 5G systems using the O-RAN Specifications based on FlexRAN and INF platform.
AIO Simplex Installation
Prepare USB stick with INF CentOS based Installation ISO
Get INF CentOS based Installation ISO from following location:
Burn the image to a USB stick:
Be sure to use the correct USB device name when copying the image.
dd if=inf-image-centos-all-x86-64.iso of=/dev/sdc bs=1M