VIAVI NITRO Wireless testing portfolio

VIAVI has announced NITRO Wireless, a portfolio of solutions enabling all participants in an ecosystem — equipment manufacturers, service providers, semiconductor companies, software developers and system integrators — to accelerate technology development by validating performance at each stage in intelligent, intuitive and automated ways.

With 5G reaching a tipping point in terms of buildout and capabilities, leading service providers and their ecosystems are developing paths to 6G. Industrial applications such as large-scale private networks, smart cities and critical communications require higher throughput and lower latency to enable the real-time computing and communication of precise sensing, imaging and positioning data. The introduction of terahertz/terabit/microsecond connectivity through the cloud, open networking in a multi-vendor environment and AI/ML to automate network operation all point to a fundamental re-architecting of the network, at the semiconductor, equipment, software and application levels. The resulting challenges of network performance, quality of service (QoS), security and energy consumption need to be mitigated and simplified.

NITRO Wireless was designed to bring together proven performance and interoperability test platforms used throughout the industry for 3GPP and O-RAN with cloud, intelligence, automation and digital twin technology enabled by the Network Integrated Test, Real-Time Analytics and Optimization (NITRO) platform. As networks become more complex and layered, a focus on measuring and assuring experience from the user perspective — by emulating usage scenarios modelled on real network data — generates the essential intelligence to simplify the delivery of new technology.

Use cases include RAN intelligence, private network intelligence, network security, digital twin and military communications.