Industrial Technology Research Institute

The Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), in collaboration with the Linux Foundation’s OCUDU Ecosystem Foundation (OCUDU EF), is launching OCUDU lab testing services in the Asia-Pacific region. OCUDU EF supports the development and adoption of open-source RAN technologies, with a focus on making them practical for real-world networks. ITRI’s independent testing environment enables vendors to evaluate how their equipment and software interoperate with OCUDU and solutions from other suppliers.

“Open-source RAN gives technology developers and vendors greater flexibility to combine technologies from different suppliers,” said Ta-Hsin Chou, General Director of ITRI Southern Region Campus. “With our testing experience and ability to work across multi-vendor environments, ITRI can help vendors identify interoperability and performance issues early and assess deployment readiness as they develop and refine OCUDU-based solutions.”

“Independent, multi-vendor testing is essential to moving open-source RAN technologies from development into commercial deployment,” said Arpit Joshipura, General Manager, Networking, Edge and IoT of the Linux Foundation. “ITRI brings deep technical expertise, established lab capabilities and strong connections across the APAC ecosystem. Its collaboration with the OCUDU Ecosystem Foundation will help contributors and vendors evaluate interoperability, performance, and deployment readiness in a neutral environment, accelerating the development of reliable, commercially viable solutions.”

ITRI’s testing platform offers independent testing support for single- and multi-UE validation, energy-efficiency testing, long-duration stability testing, and multi-vendor interoperability services. These capabilities build on ITRI’s experience in Open RAN testing, including its role as a Telecom Infra Project (TIP) Community Lab since 2022, and now provide a foundation for its OCUDU testing services.

ITRI plans to expand the platform’s capabilities to support automated O1/E2 interface testing, more radio-unit vendors, and interoperability validation with multiple core networks—including open-source 5GS—as well as RIC and SMO solutions. In addition, ITRI and DeepSig, an AI-native wireless communications technology developer and a key contributor to the OCUDU project, have agreed to pursue a collaboration to integrate DeepSig’s OmniPHY and OmniSIG technologies into ITRI’s testing environment.