SAM #RFQ-26-00118

Wide Area Network Emulator System for 5G Open RAN Research (NTIA/ITS Boulder)

The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (ITS), is seeking a Wide Area Network (WAN) Emulator system for the CRAIN 5G Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado. - Government Buyer: - U.S. Department of Commerce, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, Institute for Telecommunication Sciences - Products/Services Requested: - WAN Emulator unit (minimum two 10GBE ports, programmable API, FPGA-based hardware) - Must simulate WAN impairments: delay (up to 1.5 seconds per stream), bandwidth throttling, latency, jitter, packet loss, reordering, duplication, corruption, error insertion - Must support O-RAN.TIFG.TS.E2E-Test.0-R004-v08.00 test cases 6.11-6.14 - SFP/SFP+ adapters: - 2x Single Mode (1310nm, duplex LC, 10GBE) - 2x Multi Mode (850nm, duplex LC, 10GBE) - 1x BIDI (TX-1330nm, RX-1270nm, simplex LC, 10GBase-LR/LW) - 1x BIDI (TX-1270nm, RX-1330nm, simplex LC, 10GBase-LR/LW) - Licensing and support for at least 1 year - Unique/Notable Requirements: - Delivery to ITS in Boulder, CO within 12 weeks of order - System must be FPGA-based and support programmable API - Must support specific Open RAN (O-RAN) test cases - No specific OEMs or part numbers are specified; solution must be compatible with 5G Open RAN research needs.

Description

The Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (ITS) will conduct research and engineering projects that examine the feasibility of deploying Open Radio Access Network (RAN) systems consisting of radio subsystems from multiple vendors. This test equipment will be used to test Open RAN systems deployed in the CRAIN laboratory. The CRAIN 5G Laboratory requires a Wide Area Network Emulator solution to support research related to fifth generation (5G) cellular and Open RAN technologies.

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