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The Aerial RAN CoLab Over-the-Air (ARC-OTA) is full featured platform targeted for next generation wireless evolution that eases developer onboarding and algorithm development in real time networks. The Aerial RAN CoLab Over-the-Air equips developers, researchers, operators, and network equipment providers with all requisite components necessary to deploy a campus network for research.
Here is a ten minute video introducing ARC-OTA:
Software Release Manifest
Component | Version |
Aerial SDK (ASDK) PHY | 23-2 |
OAI gNB | OAI_Aerial_v2.2.1 |
OAI CN | OAI_Aerial_v2.2.1 |
The Aerial RAN CoLab Over-the-Air alpha release (ARC-OTA-A1.1) delivers the following:
A 3GPP Release 15 compliant and Over-The-Air(OTA) operational O-RAN 7.2 split campus 5G SA 4T4R wireless stack with all network elements from Radio Access Network and 5G Core. Aerial SDK Layer 1 (https://developer.nvidia.com/aerial-sdk) is integrated with Open Air Alliance(OAI) (https://openairinterface.org/) Distributed Unit (DU), Centralized Unit(CU) or a 5G NR gNB and 5G Core Node(CN) network elements.
A blueprint to ease onboarding, staging, and integrating the Advanced 5G network components and verification steps through bi-directional UDP traffic. This blueprint topology is illustrated below and along with the comprehensive Bill of Materials(BOM), a step-by-step staging and setup recipe, tutorials, troubleshooting tips are provided to configure all the network components for a quick turnaround live network.
Complete access to source code in C/C++ is available from Layer 1 through 5GC to jump start customizations and NG algorithm research.
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- Getting Started
- Discover Aerial RAN CoLab Over-the-Air
- Overview
- Application Use Cases
- A Platform Capable of Delivering 6G KPIs
- Aerial RAN CoLab Over-the-Air A1.1 Highlights
- Aerial RAN CoLab Over-the-Air A1.1 Technical Overview
- Aerial RAN CoLab Over-the-Air A1.1 Configuration and Capabilities
- Aerial RAN CoLab Over-the-Air A1.1 5G NR gNB Capabilities
- Aerial RAN CoLab Over-the-Air A1.1 CN Capabilities
- Installation Guide
- Tutorials
- On-Boarding Help
- Early Adopters
- Release Notes
- Developer Extensions
- Licensing
- Publications
- Support
- Background