The O-RAN Alliance and OpenAirInterface Software Alliance (OAI) agreed to co-operate on open Radio Access Network issues, open source software development, and 5G as well as next generation platforms for demonstrating O-RAN technology.
The O-RAN Alliance also announced two new Open Testing and Integration Centres (OTIC) in Asia & Pacific. OTICs are vendor-independent, open, and qualified labs approved by the O-RAN ALLIANCE that issue awards in the O-RAN Certification and Badging Program. These include the Asia & Pacific OTIC by ritt7layers and Asia & Pacific OTIC in Singapore.
O-RAN Release 003 includes enhancements to RAN Slicing and SMO features. It also introduces new features:
- Security requirements and countermeasures for RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) interfaces and apps, O-Cloud and O2 interface
- Security technical reports with threat and risk analysis outputs for application lifecycle management, log management, service management and orchestration, shared O-RU
- RIC-enabled massive MIMO optimization for non-Grid of Beams (GoB) beamforming method
- RAN Analytics Information Exposure (RAIE) use cases and RIC architecture enhancements for extending RAN-aware optimization capabilities to external services and applications