Washington, March 14, 2024–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Platform for Advanced Radio Research (PAWR) Project Office announces a partnership between the PAWR platform POWDER and industry innovator Mavenir to test the first-ever O-RAN 5G SA network deployment in mmWave. (millimeter wave) spectrum. The solution leverages Mavenir’s Open Radio Unit (O-RU), Open Distributed Unit (O-DU), Open Centralized Unit (O-CU), and 5G Core. The team has successfully completed the “first call” of setup and is ready to begin extensive testing and evaluation on a variety of user devices.
The Open RAN system is hosted on the POWDER testbed, part of the PAWR program created by the National Science Foundation, with the majority of its footprint located on the University of Utah campus. User devices are distributed across campus and up to 5 kilometers away. After deploying and integrating Mavenir equipment and software, POWDER provides automated end-to-end testing using the Test Orchestration and Test Automation (TOTA) framework.
This partnership is an example of POWDER fulfilling its charter to support U.S.-based wireless technology development. In the summer of 2023, POWDER was designated by the O-RAN ALLIANCE as an Open Testing and Integration Center (OTIC). The platform continues to expand commercial industry partnerships through its “BYOD test model” and spectrum access enabled by Experimental Program and Innovation Zone licenses granted by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
“The POWDER team is excited to collaborate with Mavenir to test the O-RAN 5G mmW SA solution on POWDER’s radio setup. This collaboration also enables us to run the POWDER TOTA framework in new configurations. ” he said. Kobus Van der Merwe, Professor of Computing, University of Utah Carlat School of Computing, Director of the POWDER Platform.
BG Kumar, President of Mavenir’s Access Networks, Platforms and MDE, said: “This is an important milestone for Mavenir and the industry. We are pleased to introduce an end-to-end 5G mmW solution that leverages our cloud-native software architecture and open interfaces to enable carriers to deploy and scale 5G networks with agility and efficiency. Masu.”
The PAWR program includes four testbeds across the country. In addition to POWDER, New York City also has COSMOS. AERPAW in the Research Triangle Region of North Carolina. and ARA in Ames, Iowa. The PAWR program also includes Colosseum, the world’s largest radio frequency emulator, located in Boston.
For more information about POWDER, please visit https://powderwireless.net/. For more information about the PAWR program, please visit https://advancedwireless.org/.
About PAWR Project Office (PPO)
The Advanced Wireless Research Projects Office (PPO) manages a $100 million public-private partnership and oversees the research platform. The PPO is co-led by U.S. Ignite and Northeastern University and is funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and his PAWR Industrial Consortium. PPO works closely with the wireless research community, regional communities, and industry, in part through industry consortia, in the design, development, deployment, and initial operation of the research platform.
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