VALOR offers a colocation model as an alternative to its on-demand customer labs, providing greater flexibility and capacity. This model allows customers to access the lab for an extended period and conduct comprehensive testing throughout the product lifecycle with a semi-permanent setup. VLANs are used to segregate network data in the lab, ensuring secure and isolated environments for each customer’s testing requirements, which leads to optimal performance and data integrity across various testing scenarios.
The VALOR Lab features a highly automated, open, and impartial Lab-as-a-Service / Test-as-a-Service suite for Open RAN interoperability, performance, and security. In addition to the colocation lab and two on-demand labs, customers can utilize a cutting-edge RF chamber for Massive MIMO and beamforming OTA validation, including system-level Massive MIMO performance testing for up to 16 parallel spatial layers.
By utilizing VIAVI’s industry-leading NITRO Wireless Open RAN Test Suite and the VAMOS unified framework, the VALOR Lab enables emerging Open RAN technology vendors to test their products without significant upfront investment. This approach offloads risks associated with building in-house Open RAN testing capabilities to VIAVI, resulting in quicker time to market and more flexible deployment.
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