India, April 7 -- VIAVI solutions announced the expansion of its VIAVI Automated Lab-as-a-Service for Open RAN (VALOR) testing facility, now featuring a radio frequency (RF) shielded anechoic chamber and two additional customer labs. Located in Chandler, Arizona, the VALOR Lab provides a highly automated, open, and impartial Lab-as-a-Service / Test-as-a-Service suite for Open RAN interoperability, performance, and security. The initiative is funded by the U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund.

The newly introduced RF chamber is the industry's first Test-as-a-Service solution for Massive MIMO and beamforming over-the-air (OTA) validation. It enables system-level...