North American OTIC in Salt Lake City (POWDER)
50 Central Campus Drive, Room 3190
Salt Lake City
UT 84112
USA
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 O-RAN testing services using commercial and in-house test software.
The POWDER OTIC currently provides outdoor testing, including automated test cases covering portions of the O-RAN TIFG E2E test 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 integrated and performed automated RIC testing with Keysight RICtest and can provide these test services to clients.
OTIC currently does not support or award any O-RAN Certificate/Badge
