Benetel completes testing at O-RAN and TIP Plugfest

Benetel engineers undertook the demonstration at the Deutsche Telekom labs in Berlin. They integrated the company’s RAN500 5G O-RU with the VIAVI TM500 O-RU tester. The RAN500 is a split 7.2x unit implementing O-RAN fronthaul and low PHY (L1) of the 5G stack. For this demonstration, it was operating in the n78 5G frequency band.

“O-RAN interoperability is the key challenge for our industry, and one that we are determined to solve. Industry events, like this Plugfest, are critical for ensuring O-RAN interoperability amongst different vendors. The integration and testing work we have done, in collaboration with VIAVI, represents a major step forward,” explained John Doyle, CTO of Benetel.

Benetel works with leading players and open initiatives, such as the O-RAN ALLIANCE, the OpenAirInterface Software Alliance (OSA) and Telecom Infrastructure Project (TIP) to provide RUs over fronthaul networks that interwork with virtualised baseband units. This open disaggregated RAN is the cornerstone of next-generation mobile network infrastructure.