Full name of OTIC: North American OTIC in Salt Lake City (POWDER)
50 Central Campus Drive, Room 3190,
Salt Lake City, UT, 84112, USA
Name: Kobus, Van der Merwe
Phone: +1-801-581-3012
E-mail: kobus@cs.utah.edu
Responsibilities / duties: Lab director; Information about lab, testing, services
University of Utah
The North American OTIC in Salt Lake City (PWDR) is associated with the POWDER mobile and wireless research and development facility, which provides remotely accessible and highly flexible lab-as-a-service functionality. POWDER provides software and hardware “building blocks” (including O-RUs and O-CU/O-DU, 5G core, and RIC stacks), as well as bring-your-own-device (BYOD) and bring-your-own-software (BYOS) capabilities, which can be combined into a variety of experimental/test configurations. POWDER's sophisticated experimental workflow enables automated and on-demand testing and R&D. POWDER can provide indoor and outdoor over-the-air E2E testing and partial O-RAN badging services using commercial and in-house test software.
The POWDER OTIC currently provides outdoor testing and badging services, covering portions of the O-RAN TIFG E2E Certification and Badge specification. We have tested E2E solutions in our outdoor environment in FR1 and FR2 bands, with commercial O-RU/O-DU/O-CU deployments, as well as open-source O-CU/O-DU stacks. POWDER has performed automated RIC testing with Keysight and is ready to provide certification and badging for RICs when specifications emerge.
Please contact the OTIC for details
