European OTIC in London (Digital Catapult)
Digital catapult (limited)
The European OTIC in London at Digital Catapult provides high-quality and comprehensive testing for different Open RAN vendors and their products and solutions. We can also assist our Labs participants and users with resources for the integration and configuration of their O-RAN products and solutions. The European OTIC in London (Digital Catapult) provides a state-of-the-art testing facility to our partners and Lab users, for collaboration, testing and exploring multi-vendor architectures and interoperability, including conformance, and deployment readiness. By providing Open RAN functional and non-functional/performance testing, the European OTIC in London (Digital Catapult) aims to strengthen Open RAN adoption in Europe and globally, through coordination and collaboration with other European and international OTICs.
The European OTIC in London (Digital Catapult) can provide a broad range of services for interoperability, E2E and unit testing for both, indoor and outdoor environments, as highlighted below. Some of the specific services supported within the OTIC lab in London are:
- Interoperability testing
- Performance testing
- Testing the throughput and latency of different Open RAN components
- End to End network testing
- Conformance testing
- Testing combined O-CU/O-DU on the open fronthaul for conformance verification based on O-RAN Alliance technical specifications
- Energy efficiency testing
- Testing, monitoring and optimization of energy efficiency for O-CU/O-DU Open RAN components
- RIC Testing
- Performance and Interoperability Testing of different RIC interfaces using RIC tester
