Keysight S5040A - S5040 A Open RAN Studio Player and Capture Appliance - at a Glance

6 Keysight S5040A Open RAN Studio Player and Capture Appliance User’s Guide
S5040A Open RAN Studio Player and Capture Appliance - At a Glance
Designed for LTE and 5G O-RAN Radio Unit (O-RU) testing, Keysight S5040A Open RAN
Studio Player and Capture Appliance is a Windows® 10 Pro Workstation based operating
system 1RU server and FPGA hardware accelerated Ethernet acquisition, timing, and
triggering hardware, which provides powerful, yet easy to use, capabilities to:
• Build O-RAN compliant CUS-plane test vectors.
• Emulate an O-RAN Distributed Unit (O-DU) – to generate the test vectors against a
Device Under Test (DUT).
• Capture and accurately timestamp the DUT’s responses.
• Perform measurements needed to validate if the O-RU meets standard compliant
operation and radio performance.
The S5040A Appliance includes powerful O-RAN focused tools to construct, play,
capture, and measure O-RAN traffic over 10 Gbps / 25 Gbps (fronthaul) Ethernet
interfaces. Out of the box integration of the U5040B Open RAN Studio software with
Keysight’s industry leading PathWave Signal Studio and 89600 VSA software enables
sophisticated 5G signal creation and easy capture, extraction, and export of IQ vectors –
for advanced modulation analysis of received RF / mmWave signals and radio
performance. Additionally, when combined with Keysight spectrum analyzers and signal
sources, the integrated Open RAN Studio solution delivers the most comprehensive cross
domain, multi-channel RF / mmWave and O-RAN protocol measurements available in
the industry, for both FR1 and FR2 radios, downlink (DL) and uplink (UL) paths.
Some of the highlights of the S5040A Appliance are:
• High-capacity removable solid state hard drive for fast boot-up, storing setups, and
saving measurement results.
• USB 3.0 and LAN ports make printing, saving, and sharing data easy.
• VGA and DisplayPort ports on the motherboard I/O panel for displaying the screen on
a different monitor.
• 64-bit Windows operating system and graphical user interface with easy-to-use
menus, toolbars, and features. Ability to install other Windows applications other than
the pre-installed Signal Studio and vector signal analysis (VSA) software.