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By partnering with Akraino, O-RAN can will specify the parts of the infrastructure that matter and leave Akraino free to define one or more blueprints that flesh out the details that are aren't intrinsic to supporting the RAN components. Akraino will define all the details and implement CI/CD infrastructure to do complete full stack testing to ensure that the running system as a whole meets the O-RAN specifications.
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Akraino promotes the validation of blueprints using the Akraino BluVal software which provides a "layers" approach to testing the various components of a system. Some examples of layers are "hardware", "operating system", "OpenStack", "Kubernetes". Additional layers can be added, so a "RAN" or "RIC" layer would be a natural extension. In this proposal, a role of O-RAN would be to provide the specifications against which a RAN or RIC layer would be validated. The Akraino REC blueprint would (and any future blueprints that implement RAN components) will incorporate this testing into the CI/CD, but other non-Akraino implementations of O-RAN would be free to choose whether or not to make use of BluVal for validation testing.
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