Reliance Jio Partners with Spirent to Validate Cloud-Native 5G Core Network

On Wednesday, Spirent Communications announced that it has partnered with Reliance Jio to validate its cloud-native 5G standalone (SA) core network for real-world workloads and traffic conditions using Spirent Landslide.

A joint statement said that Reliance Jio has has been working to deploy its homegrown 5G core across the country. As such, the telco has been working with Spirent to validate its network.

Reliance Jio, Spirent Validate 5G SA Core Network

Reliance Jio used Spirent's Landslide to perform core network capacity tests. Also, Spirent's solution allowed Jio to measure device data throughput. Furthermore, the telco also created a wide variety of complex end-user behavioral call models and mobility scenarios.

Peter Tan, Spirent’s VP and General Manager, APAC region, said "Jio needed to validate performance across its in-house 5G core network functions, while supporting LTE 4G and IMS interfaces".

He added, "Landslide provided the ideal solution, supporting interfaces across the breadth of the 5G core and, thanks to Landslide’s built-in suite of test cases, dramatically reducing the time to test".

What's more, Landslide successfully validates Jio's cloud-native 5G core network for various other applications. These include heavy signalling and data plane workloads using hardware acceleration technologies. The network also supports fallback to LTE, while providing support for HD Voice over NR (VoNR).

This has helped Jio in subjecting its “all IP Network” to 5G and VoNR-based standalone and adjacency tests. The telco saw this as a "landmark achievement" for its 5G core functions. Also, Landslide validated that the telco's core was compliant with 3GPP functions.

Tan further said, "this enabled Jio to verify the interoperability, performance, conformance and security of its 5G and IMS networks".

Aayush Bhatnagar, Senior VP, Jio Platforms, said "Our collaboration with Spirent is an important part of achieving this objective. Landslide is a golden reference globally for validating 5G core networks for functionality and performance, allowing us to successfully validate every aspect of the 5G standalone core network".

He further added, "we look forward to leveraging Landslide capabilities for validating diverse 5G use cases with Jio 5G solutions."