Reliance Industries announced that the Open Test and Integration Center (OTIC) initiative was launched today led by a group of global operators, vendors and integrators.
China Mobile and Reliance
Jio along with participation from China Telecom, China Unicom, Intel, Radisys, Samsung
Electronics, Airspan, Baicells, CertusNet, Mavenir, Lenovo, Ruijie Network, Inspur, Sylincom,
WindRiver, ArrayComm, and Chengdu NTS are collaborating on multi-vendor interoperability
and validation activities for realizing O-RAN compliant disaggregated 5G access
infrastructure that leverages open software and hardware hardened for commercial
deployments.
The OTIC initiative is an operator-led collaboration with the aim to facilitate OEM and other
open source products and solutions to be functionally compliant to the specifications of the
O-RAN Alliance, through verification, integration and testing of disaggregated RAN
components and to deliver the desired architecture that supports a plug-n-play model.