O-RAN Global PlugFest: Fall 2024

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Asia & Pacific OTIC in Singapore is pleased to announce that it was one of the hosts of O-RAN Global PlugFest Fall 2024.

The Asia & Pacific OTIC in Singapore (APOS) hosted the O-RAN Global PlugFest Fall 2024 from 19 August to 22 November 2024 (including the week for O-RAN internal presentations and demonstrations). Testing at the APOS site focused on the following high-level scope:

  • Demonstrate consistent and repeatable open fronthaul testing in multiple labs
    • O-RU Conformance / O-DU Conformance / WG4 IOT
  • O-RAN Energy Consumption, Efficiency and Savings Testing
    • O-RU Energy Savings / O-DU Energy Savings / E2E Energy Savings
    • Non-RT RIC / Near-RT RIC

PlugFest Themes
1. Demonstrate consistent and repeatable open fronthaul testing in multiple labs
2. O-RAN Energy Consumption, Efficiency and Savings Testing

Key highlights:

  • 10 O-RAN members participated in the O-RAN Global PlugFest Fall 2024 at APOS.
  • Together with test and measurement participants (Keysight and VIAVI), APOS successfully completed 8 testing scenarios for:
    • WG4 O-RU Conformance Test:
      • Zenlynx O-RU
      • Viettel High Tech (VHT) mMIMO O-RU
    • WG4 Open Fronthaul Inter-Operability Test:
      • SynaXG O-CU/O-DU + Metanoia SoC based O-RU
      • NVIDIA AI Aerial 5G + DELTA O-RU
    • End-to-End Energy-savings:
      • G-REIGNS O-CU/O-DU
      • SynaXG O-CU/O-DU + Metanoia SoC based O-RU
    • O-RU Energy-savings:
      • VHT mMIMO O-RU
    • WG3 E2 Conformance Test:
      • Rakuten Symphony’s Near-RT RIC
  • Demonstrated consistent and repeatable testing in multiple labs with Japan OTIC on WG3 E2 Conformance Test (for Rakuten Symphony’s Near-RT RIC).
  • Integrated Delta O-RU with NVIDIA AI Aerial 5G on NVIDIA A40 GPU, which is a new configuration that has not been integrated together before.

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