Rohde & Schwarz test solutions for Open RAN from design and conformance to production and end-to-end-testing
Rohde & Schwarz offers a wide product portfolio to ensure the performance of O-RAN equipment and networks. The industry-leading signal generation and analysis tools from Rohde & Schwarz are ideal for verifying the RF performance of radio network equipment from design to production, together with providing full test capabilities for 3GPP conformance testing.
The extended Rohde & Schwarz software features, combined with harmonized third-party O-DU emulation, provide an integrated and automated test setup for verifying O-RAN fronthaul conformance with ease.
The leading-edge portfolio further includes future-proof solutions for over-the-air (OTA) testing and beamforming. In addition, best-in-class oscilloscopes and power supplies ensure the overall performance of O-RAN equipment by verifying digital design and power management. The high-performance oscilloscopes are also best suited for verifying the pps time synchronization signal and for latency measurements. OTA network synchronization measurements are carried out with the 5G Site Testing Solution.
Rohde & Schwarz mobile network testing solutions cover O-RAN network testing through its lifecycle, from the initial engineering pre-operational stages in the lab to field trials, site testing and network performance tuning and troubleshooting during network rollout. When the O-RAN network is operational, end-user satisfaction is ensured through end-to-end quality benchmarking and monitoring.
Our Smart platform uses real smartphones (UEs) to benchmark service performance end-to-end with standardized QoE and QoS scoring methods. It also captures the functional performance of network access and mobility management procedures - key for the O-RAN interoperability. Our market-leading, high-performance RF scanner is used to characterize RF coverage and to measure interference robustness as well as the network synchronization integrity."