O-RAN ALLIANCE’s Certification and Badging Program GainsMomentum to Accelerate the Adoption of Open and Intelligent RAN•••The O-RAN ALLIANCE Certification and Badging Program aims to accelerate the adoption of openand intelligent Radio Access Networks (RAN) through building confidence in O-RAN products andsolutions world-wide
First O-RAN Certificates and Badges issued by Japan OTIC, Korea OTIC and the European OTIC inBerlin, adding to total of 23 issued to date
16 companies currently offer products or solutions with O-RAN certification on the open RAN
marketBonn/Germany, April 25, 2024
Since its launch in June 2022, the O-RAN ALLIANCE’s (O-RAN) Certification and Badging Program has been
set out to accelerate the adoption of open and intelligent Radio Access Networks (RAN) through building
confidence in O-RAN products and solutions world-wide. As such, the certification process supports theO-RAN ecosystem to efficiently progress with O-RAN product deployments.
Two Open Testing and Integration Centres (OTICs) – the European OTIC in Berlin and Korea OTIC – haverecently issued their first-ever O-RAN Certificates and Badges. Japan OTIC issued its first O-RAN
Certificates and Badges in June 2023 and continued with five more awarded in 2024.
The portfolio of certified O-RAN products currently counts 23 solutions from 16 companies, awarded by 5OTICs, with more being in progress around the world. All awarded O-RAN Certificates and Badges,
including company names and concrete products, are publicly available in the O-RAN ALLIANCE’sCertification and Badging Catalogue.
“Japan OTIC is committed to support testing and integration efforts in the industry to promote
implementation of open, interoperable, intelligent, virtualized and secure RAN”, said Masataka Kawauchi,
Representative Director, Japan OTIC and Chairman, YRP R&D Promotion Committee. “Since its
establishment in December 2022, we have worked with Japanese operator members to prepare
environment and capabilities for testing based on O-RAN ALLIANCE specifications and are pleased to haveissued two conformance certificates and E2E system badge to six products to date. The certified/badged
equipment has been deployed to the commercial market. We expect more to follow with ongoing
activities and additional requests received for the program and are also working to enhance our test
capabilities and coverage. Together with other engagements like PlugFests and workshops, Japan OTIC
will continue contributing towards realizing Open RAN together with the industry.”“Deutsche Telekom, as the host of the European OTIC in Berlin facilitated by i14y Lab is thrilled tocelebrate this significant milestone of the first O-RAN certificates in Europe together with the O-RAN
community, and especially with the award recipients for their commitment to O-RAN compliance,” said
Petr Ledl, VP Network Trials and Integration Lab, Deutsche Telekom. “The value for operators in having
certified solutions is the confidence that their conformance has been rigorously tested and assessed,
which will minimize the integration complexity of open RAN solutions going forward. For vendors, O-RAN
certification supports promotion of products and solutions. Both operator and vendor communities
benefit from minimized repetition of tests and savings on testing efforts.”

“We are glad to see the 1st O-RU certificate in Korea this year following the establishment of Korea OTIC(KOTC) at the end of last year,” said Geunwoo Park, Representative of the Korea OTIC. “With the issuanceof the 1st certificate, we will not only provide testing and certification services for domestic companies' ORUs but also interoperability between various open RAN equipment in Korea and beyond.”
The O-RAN Certification and Badging Programruns in collaboration with OTICs that areauthorized to issue O-RAN Certificates andBadges. The O-RAN authorized OTICs are vendorindependent, ensuring the award of impartial ORAN Certificates and Badges. Over time, the OTIC
community has been growing in global presence,currently comprising 19 OTICs, operating in ahealthy market-driven ecosystem.
There are three types of O-RAN certifications:• O-RAN Certificate verifies that a product isFigure 1: Open Testing and Integration Centres (OTICs) around the world
compliant to O-RAN specifications, using
O-RAN conformance tests.
• O-RAN Interoperability (IOT) Badge proves interoperability of a pair of products connected via anO-RAN interface or O-RAN-profiled 3GPP interface, using O-RAN interoperability tests.
• O-RAN End-to-End (E2E) Badge demonstrates and validates that an end-to-end system orsubsystem meets minimum requirements on functionality and security, using O-RAN end-to-end
tests. It can also provide an indication of performance or other end-to-end functionalities.
The O-RAN Certification and Badging Program refers to O-RAN test specifications. To date, 13 O-RAN test
specifications have been published to support driving comprehensive testing of O-RAN based products,
groups of products, and systems. Development of additional testing specifications goes hand in hand with
O-RAN ALLIANCE’s overall specification effort ensuring readiness for testing of mature areas.
For more details on the O-RAN Certification and Badging Program please refer to our website and whitepaper.
“Certification of O-RAN products and systems brings clear benefits to both operators and vendors,” said
Alex Jinsung Choi, Chair of the Board of O-RAN ALLIANCE and SVP Group Technology, Deutsche Telekom.
“We encourage the entire O-RAN ecosystem to consider active engagement in the O-RAN Certificationand Badging Program, which aims to accelerate the adoption of open and intelligent RAN solutions.”About O-RAN ALLIANCEThe O-RAN ALLIANCE is a world-wide community of more than 300 mobile operators, vendors, andresearch & academic institutions operating in the Radio Access Network (RAN) industry. As the RAN is anessential part of any mobile network, the O-RAN ALLIANCE’s mission is to re-shape the industry towards
more intelligent, open, virtualized and fully interoperable mobile networks. The new O-RAN specifications
enable a more competitive and vibrant RAN supplier ecosystem with faster innovation to improve user
experience. O-RAN based mobile networks at the same time improve the efficiency of RAN deployments
as well as operations by mobile operators. To achieve this, the O-RAN ALLIANCE publishes new RAN
specifications, releases open software for the RAN, and supports its members in integration and testing oftheir implementations.
For more information, please visit www.o-ran.org.

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