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Open RAN Certification and Badging

Certification and Badging

The i14y Lab in Berlin is your partner for Open RAN 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

O-RAN Certificate

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.

O-RAN End-to-End (E2E) Badge

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.

Benefits of open RAN certification and badging at the i14y Lab

On-Site or remote

We have you covered: Our services are available both on-site and remote testing.

Creating confidence for your customers

Certificates and badges send a clear signal to the market that your products are truly compliant with Open RAN standards, helping operators make informed decisions.

Automated test setups

Our Open RAN certification and badging test setups are highly standardized and automated for faster and better results.

Open and neutral

As a vendor neutral OTIC we are closely collaborating with the O-RAN Alliance as well as with TIP, and have many cooperations with labs worldwide, making us your open and neutral partner for valid testing, badging, and certification.

Easier and faster to deploy

Open RAN certificates and badges will result in reduced integration costs in deployment and a reduced risk for operators of integration issues, incompatibilities, or non-compliance with open RAN principles when choosing your product.

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.

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O-RAN E2E badges awarded to Radisys and SRS at the i14y Lab

What they say about us

We have asked partners and customers what they think about their badging and certification experience at the i14y Lab:

"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."

Nitin Jain

Vice President Sales, VVDN Technologies

Testing to advance Open RAN

i14y Lab - OTIC and Authorized TIP Lab

We are an Open Test and Integration Center (OTIC), qualified by the O-RAN Alliance. And we are an authorized TIP lab. One of the few labs worldwide that are indeed both. Talk to us for your Open RAN testing needs.

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