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RELIVE THE i14y LAB SUMMIT 2024

i14y Lab Summit 2024 "Validate & Implement"

The i14y Lab Summit 2024 took place on September 12th, 2024 @ Lanolinfabrik, Salzufer 15/16, 10587 Berlin.

The i14y Lab Summit 2024 happened right after this year’s BOWW Berlin Open RAN Working Week - creating three days of Open RAN in one place under the common motto "Open RAN - Unity in Variety".

Our Summit was packed with unmissable talks, demos, guided tours - and we brought back breakout sessions! Thank you to all partners involved it was a very memorable event. But see the following content for yourselves underneath:

i14y Lab Summit 2024 - a day in pictures

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i14y Lab Summit 2024 - the talks and the panels

Select the talk or panel you missed or want to watch again from the #summit24 playlist on our YouTube channel. All the talks and panels in one place for your convenience, listed in the order they happened on the day of the summit.

i14y Lab Summit 2024 Playlist

Panels, keynotes and dedicated breakout sessions about the future of open RAN, certification, openness, and the eco-system - here is an overview of the day.

Welcome and the story so far

9.30-10.00 am

After a warm welcome, we will give you an overview of the major insights on the day

Marina Grigorian | Telefónica

BOWW insights

Andreas Gladisch | i14y Lab lead

Heiko Lehmann | Deutsche Telekom

What’s up, Open RAN?

10.00-11.00 am

We will ask what lies ahead for all things open RAN from a market and a technical perspective, especially in terms of validation and implementation, and discuss what must follow from that. You can look forward to:

What the markets tell us - opportunities and pitfalls of the developing open RAN market
Keynote - Robert Curran | Appledore Research

We’re working on it - where open RAN technology stands and where it needs to go
Keynote - Shamik Mishra | Capgemini Engineering

Let’s talk this out - our keynote speakers discuss the contentious and not so contentious points of their analysis
Moderator - Stéphane Téral | TERAL RESEARCH

Followed by a short break.

Certification: the good, the bad, the beautiful

11.30-1.00pm

A look at the real-life certification at the i14y Lab from the perspectives of all players: vendor, operator, lab – asking how it went, what it was good for, what we have learned. We will combine multiple voices to get the conversation we need to have about the good, the bad, and the beauty of testing and certification.

For this we have planned a lively round of discussions with changing participants, shedding light on different aspects of certification - think fishbowl, but on stage. We will look at the insights gained through the certification campaigns and discuss key takeaways with:

Vendors - on meeting and reaching expectations

Nitin Jain | VVDN

Reiner Hogen | Fujitsu

Jan-Peter Meyer-Kahlen | Ericsson

Holger Erkens | Deutsche Telekom (Moderator)

Operators - on their certification requirements

Petr Ledl | Deutsche Telekom

Aysenur Senyer | Telefónica

Kaim Munshi | Vodafone

Kristian Toivo | TIP (Moderator)

Lab and Test / Measurement - on successes and obstacles

Sanna Brandt | Rohde & Schwarz

Ajesh Pk | i14y Lab

Chris Murphy | Viavi Solutions

Monika Tarwala | Capgemini Engineering (Moderator)

i14y LaaS - A practical approach to automated validation

Jan Klare | BISDN

Carsten Rossenhövel | EANTC

Olaf Bonneß | i14y Lab

Meet the experts at the i14y Lab booth in the marketplace area and ask away anything related to the i14y LaaS (Lab as a Service) and our approach to automated validation.

Networking Lunch

1:00-2:30pm

Your chance to meet and discuss what piqued your interest, have a look around our exhibition, and of course enjoy our famous Berlin food.

Openness: How much can we deal with; how much do we need?

2.30-4.00pm

We kick off the afternoon with discussions on openness in open RAN around the globe, the importance of energy efficiency and the role RIC will play there, and the underlying structure of O-Cloud:

Labs around the globe in global collaboration - what’s been going on and what’s in the works.

Maggie Chao | ITRI

Julie Kub | NTIA

Katja Henke | i14y Lab

Paul Sludden | Sonic Labs

Amira Gutmann-Trieb | Berlin Partner (Moderator)

RIC and the need for energy efficiency

Marcin Hofmann | Rimedo Labs

Sami Pohjonen | Nokia

Mats Eriksson | Tietoevry

Gerald Huber | Telefonica (Moderator)

Is O-Cloud truly open?

Ignacio Gonzalez | Red Hat

Andreas Schieder | Deutsche Telekom

Jan Klare | BISDN (Moderator)

Followed by a short break.

The open RAN ecosystem: we’re all in this together

4.30-5.30pm

An ecosystem comes with complexities and opportunities as the players balance collaboration and competition as they are creating value. We will discuss how to deal with this and how to get the most out of it, especially in terms of innovation.

Towards open RAN ecosystem diversity - dire straits or brave new world?

Paul Sutton | Software Radio Systems (SRS)

Keynote followed by a discussion with Stéphane Téral | TERAL RESEARCH

Pushing Open - Can policies and industry together make RAN Open?

Harald Berninghaus | BMDV

Wolfgang Kopf | Deutsche Telekom

Kate Dimsdale | NTIA

Kristian Toivo | TIP (Moderator)

One more thing: what 2024 still has in store for the i14y Lab

Andreas Gladisch | i14y Lab lead

Katja Henke | i14y Lab

Auf wiedersehen !

5:35-5:45pm

Marina Grigorian | Telefónica

Andreas Gladisch (i14y Lab lead) and Slawomir Stanczak (Fraunhofer HHI) will wrap up the day and bid you all farewell until next time.

Schematics of Science Tech Space @HHI aka Lanolinfabrik

i14y Summit 24 Market Places

Please find our esteemed exhibitors

1	i14y Lab	7	Keysight Technologies
2	Capgemini Engineering	8	Tietoevry
3	Nokia	9	BISDN
4	Fujitsu	10	Red Hat
5	Rimedo Labs	11	IS-Wireless
6	Rohde & Schwarz	12	Berlin Partner

And their content via the media and downloads section as they become available.

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Summit 24 | Market Place: Berlin Partner

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Summit 24 | Market Place: Capgemini Engineering

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Summit 24 | Market Place: Keysight Technologies

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Summit 24 | Market Place: Red Hat

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Summit 24 | Market place: Rohde & Schwarz

Break Out Sessions on offer during the day

10:55 - 11:25 Extending Decoupled SMO / Non-RT RIC to xHaul and beyond

Alfons Mittermaier | highstreet technologies

Originally, Decoupled SMO was only intended for Service Management and Orchestration of Open Radio Access Networks (O-RAN). Operators of private 5G networks, however, ask for integrated management solutions for both, RAN and transport. Consequently, O-RAN ALLIANCE initiated a work item on transport inclusion in Decoupled SMO.

10:55 - 11:25 Energy test methods for O-RAN components & systems

Yvon Rouault | Keysight Technologies

The challenge of energy efficiency now goes beyond questions of why and when. Reducing energy costs while improving quality of service is a strategic objective for all mobile operators. Selecting the right options, tuning the right parameters and optimising networks for energy efficiency requires a specific test methodology and a test platform with automation and benchmarking capabilities.

The aim of this session is to examine the requirements and share experience of energy efficiency testing in 3 complementary areas: O-RU, O-DU/O-CU/O-Cloud, and RIC.

13:30-14:00 Private 5G: Enabling mutual adaptation of network and application behavior with OpenRAN

Artur Chmielewski | IS-Wireless

Ernst-Joachim Steffens | CampusDynA

In this breakout session, Artur (IS-Wireless) and Ernst-Joachim (CampusDynA project) will jointly present their approach to Industry 4.0 application-driven near-real time monitoring and control of RAN resources in private 5G O-RAN networks, which is enabled by the IS-Wireless Liquid RAN product suite and explored in the German national R&D project CampusDynA. Network architecture, its implementation and first experiences with its utilization for industrial mobile robotic use cases will be looked at and discussed with the audience from vendor and from user perspective.

Sign up for this session at Science Tech Space @HHI room 3-11 on the day.

16:00-16:30 RANGPT, a GenAI tool for test and automation

Babak Jafarian | Aira Technologies Inc.

With RANGPT a wireless expert can analyze data, gain insights, iteratively experiment, and ultimately deploy code as rAPPS in a matter of hours - a process which previously would have taken months. A sequence of RANGPT queries and control instructions can be stitched together easily, to form the basis of RAN automation applications required to meet network opex reduction targets.

16:00-16:30 Impact of using programmable hardware (Tofino) on 5G user plane performance

Ben Lewis | BISDN

BISDN have built a 4G/5G SGWu/PGWu/UPF implementation for the Intel Tofino programmable platform, aiming for compatibility with existing cores. In this talk, we explore the impact of using programmable hardware, and how we measured this using equipment in the i14y lab.

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Summit 24 | Extending Decoupled SMO / Non-RT RIC to xHaul and beyond

Alfons Mittermaier, highstreet technologies

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Summit 24 | Private 5G: Enabling mutual adaptation of network and application behavior with OpenRAN

Artur Chmielewski & Ernst Joachim Steffens, IS-Wireless & Campus DynA

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Summit 24 | RANGPT, a GenAI tool for test and automation

Babak Jafarian, Aira Technologies

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Summit 24 | Impact of using programmable hardware (Tofino) on 5G user plane performance

Ben Lewis, BISDN

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