The Open6G Open Testing and Integration Center (OTIC) is a hub for developing and testing next-generation wireless networks based on Open RAN. The OTIC was approved by the O-RAN Alliance as North American OTIC in the Boston Area (Northeastern University) in May 2023.
The Open6G OTIC provides testing services for Open RAN products, including compliance, interoperability, performance, and functional testing against multiple state-of-the-art environments – from real 5G RANs to emulated networks in Colosseum and RAN/RIC emulators.
Key components of the OTIC include:
Colosseum, the world’s largest wireless network emulator with hardware-in-the-loop, with 256 software-defined radios, more than 20 racks of compute, with programmable GPUs, FPGAs, and components to orchestrate and manage a multi-tenant experimental environment.
Colosseum is already being used by more than 77 teams from different research institutions, and has already been successfully used to demonstrate closed-loop control for O-RAN. More info>>
The OpenRAN Gym framework, a large-scale data collection for the training of AI/ML, hosts multiple 5G protocol stacks for RAN and core and tests a mix of commercial radios and emulated devices. More info>>
Multiple 5G RAN deployments and equipment, including softwarized and commercial RAN products, 5G UEs, core networks, a programmable 5G and O-RAN testbed with 10+ gNodeBs on the indoor Arena testbed, and testing equipment.
One of the four FCC Innovation Zone frameworks in the nation, which allows the lab to quickly obtain experimental licenses for over-the-air testing in the Northeastern University Innovation Campus in Burlington, MA, and in the main Boston, MA campus.
An outdoor UAV testing facility to profile use cases related to drone mobility and a large anechoic chamber to test radio devices in an interference-free environment. More info>>
OTIC Facilities
The OTIC is hosted in the Northeastern WIoT Open6G facilities, which includes an open space with 4600 square feet of collaboration and experimental space, a conference room, a dedicated office, a storage room, and a data center room with dedicated cooling, power supply, and networking infrastructure. In addition to this indoor space, we provide access to an outdoor UAV flying cage and an indoor anechoic chamber in the same campus.
System-level testing and interoperability for end-to-end Open RAN system with physical and remote access
Integration of commercial hardware and software on top of state-of-the-art experimental facilities for emulation testing
Security, privacy, ease of deployment, and realistic, complex testing environments.
Over-the-air and emulated wireless environments testing.
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