COSMOS, Intel, and Airspan to Test and Evaluate OCUDU in End-to-End, 5G/NextG Deployment Scenarios
Airspan Networks has announced a plan to collaborate with Intel and the COSMOS platform to test and evaluate OCUDU software in end-to-end deployment scenarios.
From the Airspan press release:
The work combines OCUDU — an open source 5G and beyond software stack for commercial deployment, research, and innovation being developed by the OCUDU Ecosystem Foundation hosted by the Linux Foundation — with the Aether SD-Core open-source 5G core and commercial O-RAN radio units (O-RUs). Within the collaboration, COSMOS provides its city-scale testbed, integration site, and experimentation support; Intel, a leading contributor to Aether/SD-Core, collaborates with partners to integrate testing of OCUDU with Aether/SD-Core and with Airspan O-RUs; and Airspan provides support for the integration of its O-RAN radio units, spanning TDD in the n78 band and FDD units in the n1 band. In addition, Airspan will provide and support ORAN DAS as well as Open Source RAN based Network Management platforms, making this a comprehensive testing and evaluation approach.
This effort is part of a larger initiative to test and evaluate OCUDU across a range of use cases and network operating conditions, coordinated by the OCUDU Ecosystem Foundation among organizations spanning industry and academia.
Read more on the Airspan website.
