OpenLab @ UT Dallas
Neutral host facility for interoperability of open standards in 5G radio and networking as well as optical transport, right in the heart of the Texas Telecom corridor.
We are a neutral host facility for data networking equipment interoperability validation.
We have the experience, space and staff for multi-vendor interoperability of open and disaggregated network element validation for industry implementation agreements, such as OpenROADM MSA, O-RAN Alliance, Open ZR+ MSA, etc. OpenLab @ UT Dallas also trains the next generation of telecom engineers to be familiar with and successful in an open and disaggregated networking environment.
5G
Interoperability of 5G Open Radio Access Networking (O-RAN), Mobile Network Operator Hub and neutral host facility for the wireless innovation fund Accord project, Interoperability of open radio unit (O-RU), open distributed unit (O-DU) and open centralized unit (O-CU), as well as 5G core.
Optical
Interoperability of OpenROADM Multi-Source Agreement (MSA) compliant equipment (OpenROADM.org) for data and control plane, all network element types (ROADM, xponder, pluggables, etc.), interoperability of OpenZR+ MSA compliant equipment, interoperability of control plane of OpenConfig compliant equipment, enquire about network element types.
OpenLab @ UT Dallas has
- Two locations with ample space to grow to more than 100 racks of equipment
- Site #1 located on the UT Dallas campus
- Site #2 located at The IQHQ® in Richardson
- Test equipment and automated procedures for open interoperability standards compliance validation and end-to-end testing
- State of the art optical transport, packet transport, and 5G radio commercial solutions
Facilities
- Stand-alone validation of networking equipment (e.g. optical, packet, radio access network equipment, etc.) against open standards
- Neutral-host interoperability validation of open disaggregated networking equipment
- End-to-end networking validation of specific configurations
- Public demonstrations and interoperability events of open and disaggregated networking equipment
- Training of the next generation of networking engineers