Collection:

ORAN Emulators

From fronthaul validation to end-to-end RAN testing

Model:

S5040A

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Open RAN Studio Player and Capture Appliance

The S5040A is an instrument grade test and measurement appliance to perform the measurements necessary to validate an O-RU’s functional operation and performance.

Sub system simulated O-Gnb, O-DU
Test types O-RU fronthaul
Interfaces supported OFH

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 S5040A is an instrument grade test and measurement appliance to perform the measurements necessary to validate an O-RU’s functional operation and performance.

Highlights

The S5040A Appliance is enabled by Keysight’s powerful O-RAN focused tools and is purpose built to construct, play, capture, and measure O-RAN traffic over 10 Gbps / 25 Gbps (fronthaul) Ethernet interfaces. Out of the box integration of the U5040B Open RAN Studio software with Keysight’s PathWave Signal Studio and 89600 VSA software enables sophisticated 5G signal creation and easy capture, extraction, and export of IQ vectors – for advanced modulation analysis of received RF / mmWave signals and radio performance

  • The S5040A and Open RAN Studio provide a test environment that integrates with Keysight tools, in both RF and Protocol Domains, to completely exercise an O-RAN CUS compliant Radio Unit (O-RU).
  • Signal Studio Pro for 5G NR creates 3GPP compliant 5G NR waveforms for emulation through Open RAN Studio to an O-RU / DUT and subsequent transmission to a downstream signal analyzer, DUT, or compliant UE.
  • The S5040A Open RAN Studio Player and Capture Appliance incorporates UltraScale FPGA hardware to accelerate five powerful tools to construct, play, capture, measure, and extract IQ vectors for split option 7.2x O-RAN traffic.
  • Emulate a DU and generate test vectors against an O-RU
  • Capture Tx & Rx bidirectional eCPRI message flows between the DU and O-RU over the O-RAN interface
  • Timestamps, decode and visualizes O-RAN protocol information and enables measurements in both protocol and RF / mmWave domains
  • Optional IQ Extractor reconstructs a time domain IQ file from an O-RAN trace capture, enabling advanced modulation measurements with 89600 VSA software.
  • 89600 VSA for 5G NR may optionally receive captured IQ vectors from the S5040A and the Open RAN Studio IQ Extractor to perform 5G NR modulation and radio performance measurements

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