5G FAPI SPECS UPDATED WITH NEW OAM FOR INLINE HIGH-PHY

5G FAPI suite continues to evolve to meet industry needs

SCF has updated its 5G FAPI suite, and released a new specification SCF229 5G FAPI Operations, Administration and Maintenance (OAM) Protocol For Inline High-PHY, bringing to Open RAN fuller virtualized support of inline High-PHY implementations in O-RAN Alliance architecture. These latest releases are further indication of the FAPI suite evolving and meeting industry requirements, and it demonstrates SCF’s commitment to consistently updating and expanding the APIs.

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SCF develops the technical and commercial enablers to accelerate the adoption of agile, cost-effective, scalable, cellular infrastructure to drive wide-scale densification. Broad roll-out of flexible, scalable and sustainable infrastructure will make high-grade mobile connectivity accessible and affordable for industries and enterprises and for rural and urban communities. That, in turn, will drive new business opportunities for a widening ecosystem of service providers. Those service providers are central to our work program, alongside their enterprise customers establishing the requirements that drive the activities and outputs of our technical groups.

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