US Patent Issued to VIAVI SOLUTIONS on April 29 for "Test device with distributed unit emulation for testing in open radio access network" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,137, issued on April 29, was assigned to VIAVI SOLUTIONS INC. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"Test device with distributed unit emulation for testing in open radio access network" was invented by Reza Vaez-Ghaemi (Potomac, Md.) and David Fenstermacher (Mount Airy, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A test device tests conditions associated with a fronthaul in an Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN). The test device can field test an O-RAN radio unit (O-RU) installed at a cell site by emulating an O-RAN distributed unit (O-DU) in the O-RAN connected to the O-RU via the fronthaul of the O-RAN. The testing includes testing connectivity of the O-RU to t...