Discover the historic moment as European OTIC in Berlin awards the first O-RAN Badge and Certificate, powered by the i14y Lab. Learn how standardization, interoperability, and quality assurance are accelerating open RAN solutions. Join us for insights from industry leaders and subscribe for updates on future events.
Certification and Badging
For a certificate or badge for your OFH O-RU, O-DU, O-CU or RIC to matter, it needs to be issued by an independent, vendor-neutral third party. And one that has a proven track record of providing reliable results. Like the i14y Lab in Berlin.
Certification ensures that a product fully complies with O-RAN standards through rigorous testing by accredited labs. Badging signifies that a product has been tested for specific interoperability or performance standards in O-RAN-recognized testing centers (OTICs).
Certification and Badging at the i14y Lab - This is what we offer
To certify that your O-RU is compliant to O-RAN specifications, chose this option.
Tests include:
- Support FR1 (TDD/FDD) radio downlink (DL) und uplink (UL) paths for CU Plane.
- M-Plane and S-Plane Conformance testing, including performance.
- Monitor and analyze traffic over FH interface
Our team will guide you through the process and execute the tests, and you will benefit from our standardized and automated test setups. A full test report will be issued after the tests.
After successfully passing the tests, your product will be awarded the O-RAN Alliance Certificate.
Prices for any additional engineering or consulting support are available on request, if for example you wish to discuss the results in more detail with our team.
To validate that an end-to-end system or as subsystem in an end-to-end meets the requirements on functionality and security of the O-RAN Alliance specification, chose this option.
The tests include
- Functional E2E integrated testing, including Mobility and Handover
- Performance testing for KPIs.
- gNB Security Assurance Specification (SCAS) required by 3GPP SA3
- Load and stress testing as defined by the TIFG.
Our team will guide you through the process and execute the tests, and you will benefit from our standardized and automated test setups. A full test report will be issued after the tests.
Integration efforts and troubleshooting during the tests may incur additional costs.
After successfully passing the tests, your product will be awarded the O-RAN Alliance End-to-End (E2E) Badge.
Prices for any additional engineering or consulting support are available on request, if for example you wish to discuss the results in more detail with our team.
Certification and Badging for Open RAN
Badging and certification will serve as essential enablers towards the success of open RAN, accelerating time to market and unlocking the full potential of disaggregated network architectures. By fostering interoperability, standardization, and quality assurance, these mechanisms empower operators with greater agility, flexibility, and innovation.
As the telecommunications industry continues to embrace the principles of openness and disaggregation, we believe the role of badging and certification will remain paramount in driving forward the evolution of network infrastructure.
The best way to find out what our Certification and Badging offer can do for you is to talk to us. Please send us a message giving us some details of what you have in mind using the form, and we will be in touch.
AirHop Communications has earned the TIP Silver badge for their rApp after rigorous testing at the i14y Lab, meeting stringent Deutsche Telekom requirements. This recognition highlights the rApp’s effectiveness in a key RAN Intelligent Controller optimization use case. Deutsche Telekom's Holger Erkens praised the rigorous assessment process, while i14y Lab's Andreas Gladisch emphasized the importance of robust testing for open RAN success.
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It was a proud moment for us to get the O-RAN certificate of conformance at the i14y Labs. They helped us a lot in defying the test cases and the parameters, resulting in a much faster certification.