NITRO Wireless

RANtoCore Test and Optimization solution

NITRO Wireless
Industry-leading Performance and Interoperability Test Platforms for
3GPP and O-RAN, Enhanced by Cloud, AI, Automation, and Digital Twins

Accelerate Time-to-Market with Telco Quality, Lowest Risk and Reduced Costs.

As networks become more complex and layered, a focus on measuring and assuring experience from the user perspective – by emulating usage scenarios modeled on real network data – generates the essential intelligence to simplify the delivery of new technology.

NITRO® Wireless offers network test and optimization solutions to enable all participants in the ecosystem – equipment manufacturers, service providers, semiconductor companies, software developers and system integrators – to accelerate technology development by validating performance at each stage in intelligent, intuitive and automated ways.

Available as Cloud-based, Software, Hardware, Test-as-a-Service (TaaS), or Lab-as-a-Service (LaaS).

6G Forward

At VIAVI, we prove technologies and deliver transformative solutions that enhance network efficiency, security, and accessibility. Our mission spans applied research, PoC innovation, patent portfolio management, research partnerships, standardization engagement, and knowledge transfer from R&D ideas to products.

With a strong history in cellular solutions, and a dedicated CTO Team alongside VIAVI Marconi Labs® research scientists, we have an unmatched understanding of specific requirements of 6G use cases. VIAVI is focused on several key research vectors, and has multiple patents filed. These include spectrum and topologies, native AI end-to-end solutions, expanding vertical applications, optical-wireless coalescence, and ensuring security and resilience in 6G networks. From full AI neural receivers, new waveforms to advanced multiple access techniques, our work promises dynamic adaptability in future network deployments.

The challenges of network performance, quality of service (QoS), security and energy consumption now need to be mitigated and simplified.

Energy Saving Validation
SASE Test
5G Core Test

 

Energy Savings

The RIC and associated Energy Saving Apps can reduce the energy consumed by the RAN by making intelligent decisions about how to deploy resources, for example turning off cells and frequencies during quiet times, without compromising user experience.

Before live deployment, r/xApps and rApps for the RIC need to be assessed and also trained to best optimize 5G energy savings. With TeraVM AI RSG you can emulate RAN hardware, software, cells, power consumption and traffic conditions to test RIC performance under real-world conditions. In an easy and cost-effective way.

Intelligence Energy Savings

In addition, by continually capturing and analyzing subscriber data with NITRO Location Intelligence as rApp/xApp, you can improve RAN power consumption and subscriber QoE further.

Mobility data and subscriber-centric insights are provided to a ML-driven digital twin for analysis. RAN energy savings driven by fully or partially powered off cells and e-tilts can be predicted and quantified by the digital twin in parallel, to safeguard the subscriber's mobile experience. Adjustments can then be implemented to maximum advantage as part of a continuous optimization loop.

VIAVI New Approach Using Location Intelligence

Resources for Energy Savings

 

 
Video: How TeraVM AI RSG can be used to run energy saving algorithms form RIC and rApps

 
Video: RAN Energy Savings with VIAVI Location Intelligence

 

SASE Test

Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) is a new way for employees accessing corporate functions and data securely and efficiently from any location.

The advent of cloud deployed applications and data combined with the diverse working locations has accelerated this change.

IT organizations are faced with the conundrum of providing employees with fast secure access while ensuring the corporate data and security are not breached and the same time ensuring productivity is not hampered by poor latency, throughput and response times.

The quickest and safest way to a secure roll out of SASE is to vigorously test in the lab.

With TeraVM SASE test you can be sure enterprise employees will receive a secure connection, operational efficiency and 24/7 access anywhere their laptop takes them.

SASE Solutions

While SASE is the solution there are many deployment challenges facing corporations:

  • • What is the capacity of the VPN links between SASE and private applications?
  • • How much authenticated and unauthenticated web application traffic can my SASE solution handle?
  • • Does the end user performance vary under different load conditions?
  • • How many connections can be sustained?
  • • How much traffic can be carried inside the tunnels?
  • • Will redundancy work when relied upon?
  • • Will everything work seamlessly across a distributed multi-Cloud platform?
  • • Will latency-sensitive applications such as Teams collaboration, VoIP, media streaming, and video conferencing work on demand without service affecting issues?
  • Will a cyber-attack compromise performance while data is scrubbed?

 

5G Core Test

The VIAVI TeraVM 5G Core Test provides a full wraparound validation of a 5G Standalone Core Network.

One of the biggest challenges facing NEMs and mobile operators as they launch 5G is developing products against constantly changing and maturing 3GPP specs.

TeraVM Core Test gives Core Network engineers a controllable and repeatable test environment that helps implement 3GPP standards rapidly. It also simplifies the development lifecycle of the 5G SA Core Network and the introduction of 5G services to the market.

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TeraVM provides fully configurable emulation of thousands of basestations, millions of UE's and user applications to create the most realistic 5G SA RAN environment to stress the core. Full support for 3GPP interfaces such as N1, N2, N3 and N6 enables the tester to accurately emulate UE applications and mobility behavior for inter-5G and inter-RAT scenarios.

Test the entire core or wraparound individual SBA components for isolation test.

The TeraVM virtualized platform makes it an ideal solution for validating the 5G SBA (Service Based Architecture) virtual mobile core and its components.

NITRO Wireless Use Cases

The NITRO® Wireless TeraVM AI RSG trains the RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) based on data from real network scenarios, the App Validation Engine (AVE) acts as an App "IQ test" to validate if the proposed changes improve RAN efficiency, and Geolocation exposes geolocated data to r/xApps including 24/7 insights on spatial distribution and mobility dynamics of subscribers.

To support the high reliability and QoS requirements of Private Networks, NITRO Wireless offers signal analysis, timing and synchronization verification, antenna alignment, fiber certification, and coverage and performance testing from design to operation.

The VIAVI NTN Testbed overcomes the technical challenges of 5G NTN, providing assurance that new NTN constellations perform reliably while conforming to 3GPP Release 18 and beyond. You can evaluate with a Digital Twin, test with real devices (gNB or UE), and confidently deploy with OTA test (in orbit).

5G RAN, 5G Core, Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), Next Generation Firewalls, VPN and cloud security solutions all need to be compliant against the latest specifications, while ensuring network performance remains uncompromised. NITRO Wireless Open RAN Security Solution provides test coverage that includes 3GPP SCAS compliance, DoS and fuzzing attack, O-Cloud resource exhaustion, protocol validation, port scanning and open fronthaul security test.

Digital Twins can reduce business risk in multiple ways. Test software updates and introduce new services in a safe environment to pre-empt failures when deployed in the live network. NITRO Wireless Digital Twins combines tools such as RAN and Core emulators, assurance solutions, realistic traffic scenarios, and cyberthreats to mirror an operator's network in the lab, allowing network changes and challenges to be planned and implemented with results analyzed before action is taken on the live network.

NITRO Wireless integration and test portfolio offers complete end-to-end and subsystem testing of 5G private military radio and core networks. These can be deployed on the ground, via HAPS or via satellite.

Awards & Recognition

Lightwave Innovation Reviews Awards
Inc. Magazine Names VIAVI Solutions Among the 100 Best-Led Companies
Singapore Business Review Technology Award 2022
Leading Lights Award Winner 2020

Industry Engagement

3GPP
O-RAN Alliance
Telecom Infra Project
ETSI Member
NEXT G Alliance

We’re excited to work with VIAVI on helping move the industry forward to accelerate the adoption of Open RAN. Our companies share a vision of what it will take to address the challenges hindering adoption by simplifying the path for CSPs to test, profile, and certify third-party xApps and rApps through a common framework. VIAVI’s leadership in Open RAN testing and VMware’s leadership in RIC make this an ideal collaboration.

Lakshmi Mandyam ,
Vice President, Service Provider Product Management and Partner Ecosystem
VMware

With an ecosystem of both technology and telecom partners and focus on end-to-end solutions for industries, Capgemini is committed to support our clients to take advantage of the 5G and Edge revolution, driving their data-driven transformation towards Intelligent Industry. We chose to team up with VIAVI to ensure we continue to deliver the best service to our clients, augmenting our 5G Lab As A Service capability in Portugal to reduce time to market and mitigate technical and business risks significantly.

Shamik Mishra ,
Chief Technology Officer Connectivity
Capgemini Engineering

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