COSMOS, Intel, and Airspan to Test and Evaluate OCUDU in End-to-End, 5G/NextG Deployment Scenarios
The Cloud Enhanced Open Software Defined Mobile Wireless Testbed for City-Scale Deployment (COSMOS), a National Science Foundation PAWR (Platform for Advanced Wireless Research) platform led by Rutgers University/WINLAB together with Columbia University and New York University, has embarked on a collaboration with Intel and Airspan Networks to integrate, test, and evaluate the OCUDU (open source CU/DU) software stack in the context of end-to-to open source 5G deployments, paving the way to NextG.
The work combines OCUDU -- an open source 5G and beyond software stack for commercial deployment, research, and innovation being developed by the OCUDU Ecosystem Foundation hosted by the Linux Foundation-- with the Aether SD-Core open-source 5G core and commercial O-RAN radio units (O-RUs). Within the collaboration, COSMOS provides its city-scale testbed, integration site, and experimentation support; Intel, a leading contributor to Aether/SD-Core, collaborates with partners to integrate testing of OCUDU with Aether/SD-Core and with Airspan O-RUs; and Airspan provides support for the integration of its O-RAN radio units, spanning TDD in the n78 band and FDD units in the n1 band. In addition, Airspan will provide and support ORAN DAS as well as Open Source RAN based Network Management platforms, making this a comprehensive testing and evaluation approach.
