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Viavi Solutions Inc. VIAV recently announced that it had entered into a strategic partnership with Telecom Infra Project (TIP) aimed to enhance the testing capabilities of the Viavi Automated Lab-as-a-Service for Open RAN (VALOR). This collaboration will likely establish VALOR as the first TIP-authorized test lab to streamline certification processes and reduce duplication efforts, thereby promising to accelerate the time-to-market for Open RAN (ORAN) solutions.

VALOR, backed by a $21.7 million grant from the Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund, incorporates Viavi’s industry-leading NITRO Wireless portfolio to provide a fully automated, cooperative, open and unbiased testing environment dedicated to ORAN interoperability, performance and security. This service is designed to manage and support 5G and ORAN deployments that would benefit new entrants, startups, and educational institutions to access tools with a minimal ramp-up time. Viavi’s involvement with TIP exemplifies this collaborative spirit.

VALOR’s test-as-a-service capabilities should help TIP advance its ORAN Project Group and enhance the broader industry’s ability to implement and certify ORAN technologies. Further, VALOR's testing services are likely to support the TIP community by ensuring that ORAN systems meet high-performance standards to handle real-world network complexities. The initiative is also expected to reduce market fragmentation and create supply chain efficiencies.

TIP will also utilize VALOR’s cloud-based virtual testing capabilities to build a robust system performance certification framework, thereby promoting innovation and industry alignment. This will improve data reliability and performance, resulting in the collective progress of open and disaggregated networks globally.

The collaboration between Viavi and TIP is part of a broader effort to advance the ORAN system landscape by tackling multi-vendor deployment challenges and ensuring comprehensive end-to-end system-level performance testing across different vendors. This approach is believed to offer operators more flexible, cost-effective, and high-performance network solutions.

Through the integration of TIP’s advanced technologies, Viavi aims to set a new standard in cutting-edge testing solutions and certification methodologies.

Shares of Viavi have lost 38.6% over the past year against the industry’s growth of 80.5%.

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