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NEC Corporation announced that they would participate in demonstration tests using machines compliant with O-RAN (Open Radio Access Network) for the commercialization of virtualized base stations in 5G, which began in March under the initiative of KDDI Corporation, and provide base station equipment and conduct tests.

In order to ensure flexibility, which is an element that realizes communication applicable to various use cases in 5G, it is an object of the demonstration experiment to realize the opening of the front hole interface which consists of the base station by combining the general-purpose hardware and the virtualization base station which can operate the RAN (Radio Access Network) software on the virtualization infrastructure and the equipment of the vendor which differs from the virtualization base station.

Therefore, through the technical verification of 5G virtualization base stations using O-RAN compliant base stations, the company will identify issues and examine solutions, optimize technologies for the practical application and introduction of 5G virtualized base stations, and define requirements.

NEC will provide base station radio units (RUs) conforming to O-RAN front-hole interface specifications and connect them with base station controllers (CUs and DUs) of other vendors conforming to this specification to construct an environment for demonstration experiments.

It also intends to conduct tests and verify the results of the tests, contributing to verification for practical application.

Original Text: https://ampmedia.jp/2020/05/20/nec-26/