IBM wants to integrate Keysight software-focused tools for testing, emulating, and measuring open RAN with IBM Cloud Pak for Network Automation, an AI-powered cloud telecommunications platform that facilitates the automation of network operations.

Located in Madrid, Spain, the IBM Center of Excellence (CoE) enables Communications Service Providers (CSPs) to deploy IBM solutions in their lab environments or live networks to support industrial and private applications. The IBM CoE focuses on advancing digital transformation in the telecommunications industry and is supported by IBM Consulting.

Keysight's open RAN solutions will support IBM in demonstrating O-RAN solutions to CSPs seeking partners. These open RAN solutions will enable manufacturers to verify compliance, interoperability, performance, and security, resulting in the deployment of fully interoperable RAN equipment. IBM's Center of Excellence plans to use Keysight's radio unit simulator, RuSIM, to validate O-RAN distributed units (O-DUs); CoreSIMto verify the performance of open RAN equipment; and Nemo Wireless Network Solutions to optimize and monitor wireless networks.