Today SOLiD, the leader in cellular in-building mobile coverage, announced that the company’s 5G Open RAN radio equipment will support multi-vendor interoperability testing of open network architectures in the VIAVI Automated Lab-as-a-Service for Open RAN (VALOR™). This collaborative industry effort is funded by the U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund (PWSCIF).

As a member of the O-RAN ALLIANCE, SOLiD is committed to supporting interoperability and end-to-end network operation. The VALOR lab service will conduct impartial testing of SOLiD’s C-Band Open RAN Radio Units (O-RUs) to demonstrate interoperability with multi-vendor virtual and physical 5G baseband components, including Fujitsu O-RAN virtualized CU/DU.

“At SOLiD, we firmly believe that industry collaboration such as the VALOR testing service is key to enabling dedicated, impartial testing to validate multi-vendor component interoperability, performance, and security,” said Scott Deweese, president of SOLiD Americas. “We are pleased to support cooperative efforts that advance interoperability, empowering greater performance, agility, reliability, and cost-efficiency for private and public 5G networks alike, and paving the way to next-generation 6G architectures.”

“Impartial testing of open 5G network architectures is imperative to enable mobile network operators to deploy best-of-breed Open RAN architectures that allow greater agility and innovation, as well as optimized network performance,” said Masaki Taniguchi, senior vice president and head of the mobile systems business unit at Fujitsu. “As a pioneer in open networking, Fujitsu welcomes industry-wide participation that bolsters a robust Open RAN ecosystem.”

To learn more, read the full press release here.

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