Collection:

ORAN Emulators

From fronthaul validation to end-to-end RAN testing

Model:

P8828S

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RICtest – RAN Intelligent Controller Test Solutions

The P8828S RICtest emulates O-RAN E2, A1 and O1 nodes and traffic profiles for performance, conformance and interoperability testing.

Test types Near RT RIC/xApps, Non-RT RIC/rApps
Sub system simulated O-Gnb, RIC
Interfaces supported E2, A1, O1

Emulation tools for verifying disaggregated 5G and ORAN infrastructure

Keysight ORAN solutions precisely emulate all major ORAN components: RU, CU/DU, 5G Core, and RIC. They enable functional, performance, and interoperability testing with real-world traffic and protocols. Replace 5G network parts with known-good components to isolate performance/conformance. Capture/replay traffic to validate open fronthaul, F1, E2, and core interfaces with ORAN Studio. Verify timing/MIMO sync (Time Sync Analyzer), emulate 5G core (CoreSIM), test NFV (LoadCore), or perform full RAN validation (DuSIM, RuSIM, RIC emulators). Request a quote for one of our popular configurations today. Need help selecting? Check out the resources below.

Emulate every ORAN component

Simulate O-RUs, O-DUs, O-CUs, and the 5G Core with protocol-conformant behavior across fronthaul and midhaul interfaces to validate network interoperability and integration.

Generate realistic user and control traffic

Create thousands of concurrent voice, data, and signaling sessions with support for mobility, quality of experience (QoE) modeling, and protocol stack behaviors to stress the RAN under real-world conditions.

Capture and replay fronthaul interfaces

Record and play back live fronthaul traffic using Open RAN Studio to verify time-sensitive behavior, identify regressions, and debug interface-level performance issues with high fidelity.

Verify interface and protocol compliance

Run automated conformance tests for open fronthaul, F1, E2, and other ORAN interfaces to ensure standards adherence, vendor interoperability, and test repeatability.

Sub system simulated O-Gnb, O-RU, O-DU, O-CU, RIC, Core Network, RF air interface
Test types O-DU southbound, O-DU+O-CU southbound, O-CU southbound, O-DU northbound, Near RT RIC/xApps, Non-RT More…
Interfaces supported OFH, F1, E2, A1, O1, Backhaul, RF air interface

The P8828S RICtest emulates O-RAN E2, A1 and O1 nodes and traffic profiles for performance, conformance and interoperability testing.

Highlights

The role of RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) and its applications is telemetry collection and analysis for live delivery of remediations and optimizations that improve and enhance network event outcomes. For xApps and rApps to be successful, the platform’s components must be interoperable with robust vertical integration that supports anticipated production levels of messaging. The xApps and rApps themselves also must be validated, with modeled measurements and workflow execution that proves protocol behaviors and adherence to standards.

  • The role of Service Management Orchestration (SMO) in this context is integral to RAN management and Key Performance Indicator (KPI) visibility. The O1 interface provides means for SMO to collect telemetry for use by rApps as well as manage the O-RAN elements’ configurations and operations. Validation of the SMO’s operations on behalf of the Non-Real-Time RIC ensures support for methods required by O1-based rApps that can optimize performance, remediate misconfigurations, and improve efficiency.
  • Ensuring that RIC, SMO, and Applications are ready for production deployment requires assessment in areas of performance, conformance, interoperability, and use case validation. Such assessment done at scale has challenges. It is impractical to do testing with a test bed of real UEs and RAN components connected to a core network. A test setup with real O-RAN components, UEs, and a core network to generate test data would be very expensive and difficult to operate.
  • Keysight’s RIC testing solutions are designed with these challenges in mind.
  • · Simulate O-RAN nodes with E2 and O1 interfaces serving a large number of UEs distributed across multiple cells
  • · Configure traffic patterns and mobility scenarios, testing AI/ML processing of xApps and rApps through the delivery of modeled measurements
  • · Validate O-RAN RAN Intelligent Controller functionality and performance
  • · Highly scalable with support for large RAN topology (e.g. hundreds of cells, O-CUs and O-DUs, O-gNBs and O-eNBs)
  • · Conformance test for Near Real-Time RIC, Non-Real-Time RIC, and E2-aware O-RAN nodes
  • · Software-only solution (hardware optionally available)

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