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What is O-RAN SMO?
The O-RAN Alliance is a worldwide community of telcos, vendors, government, research, and academic organizations creating an open specification for the radio area network (RAN). The specification defines a component called Service Management and Orchestration or SMO that addresses the orchestration, management, and automation aspects of O-RAN.
Why is O-RAN SMO Important?
Amongst the O-RAN components, the SMO is most critical for supporting and managing a multi-vendor RAN environment. With the right SMO, you can choose the best-of-breed network function (RU, CU, DU, and NearRT RIC) providers, offering a technically superior solution while simultaneously reducing costs.
The Aarna Networks Multi Cluster Orchestration Platform (AMCOP) is an ideal O-RAN SMO solution as it's:
Vendor Agnostic
Comprehensive
Open Source
Cloud Native
Easy to Use
Supported
O-RAN SMO Architecture v04.00
AMCOP Customers
Tier 1 Industrial Automation Company (APAC)
Use case is Private 5G for Industry 4.0; uses Aarna for managing RAN, 5G Core, radio, and switches.
Tier 1 Telco (APAC)
Uses AMCOP as an O-RAN SMO to establish interop with cloud native RU, DU, CU vendors.
Tier 1 Telco (EU)
Uses AMCOP open source components as an O-RAN SMO for configuration management, fault management and performance management of O-RAN network functions.
A Truly Vendor Agnostic Solution
Many users procure O-RAN SMO and RAN network functions from the same vendor. However, choosing O-RAN SMO from an alternate vendor provides independence and flexibility. At Aarna, we use an open source SMO that avoids vendor lock-in.
AMCOP is fully open source and aligned with the Linux Foundation's O-RAN-SC project, giving confidence for O1 and A1 compliance. Other LF Networking projects provide orchestration and network slicing functionality.
Cloud Native
AMCOP is fully cloud native and can be deployed onto Kubernetes clusters. AMCOP can be centralized or distributed at the RAN site. AMCOP can work with CNFs, VNFs, or EMSs as well.
Easy to Use
AMCOP is lightweight and easy to deploy, manage, and use. We offer both a GUI and APIs. The GUI includes a custom dashboard for O-RAN for configuration management, fault management, and performance management.
AMCOP Usage Options
Depending on the state of your O-RAN journey, we have different options for you:
Open Source
If you are not sure you want a commercial engagement with us, feel free to try our O-RAN SMO for free on-prem or on Azure cloud.
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