VIAVI Solutions Inc. announced on May 13, 2025, that Metanoia Communications Inc.'s JURA Open Radio Unit (O-RU) successfully completed end-to-end over-the-air (OTA) validation at the VIAVI Automated Lab-as-a-Service (VALOR). This marks the first product to be validated at the lab's new RF-shielded anechoic chamber, ensuring compliance with O-RAN and 3GPP specifications. The VALOR lab, funded by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund, officially opened on October 7, 2024, with the RF chamber added on April 3, 2025.
Metanoia's O-RU underwent end-to-end performance validation to ensure seamless integration into Open RAN networks, utilizing reference O-CU and O-DU components provided by VALOR and its partners. Tests were conducted over the air within the RF chamber, evaluating key performance metrics under realistic radio conditions. Additionally, O-RAN end-to-end functional and performance validation was carried out based on O-RAN TIFG-defined test cases, assessing the system's behavior across control, user, and management planes.
Erik Probstfield, Senior Director, VALOR, VIAVI, emphasized that this successful validation is an important milestone for VIAVI and the VALOR lab, demonstrating its capability to independently validate hardware functionality and performance. Didier Boivin, Executive Vice President, Metanoia, praised the state-of-the-art OTA chamber and VIAVI's testing experience as invaluable resources for advancing leadership in the Open RAN ecosystem. VALOR's services, including the industry's first Test-as-a-Service offering for Massive MIMO OTA validation, are crucial for accelerating O-RU commercialization and innovation.
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