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To advance the frontiers of 5G-and-beyond systems towards services such as ultra-reliable, low-latency communications for control and extended reality (XR) applications, a key focus of ARA is to support end-to-end, whole-stack open-source innovation in O-RAN and 5G/6G in general. To this end, Aether is a leading open-source platform that has been deployed in ARA. For instance, SD-RAN has been deployed in ARA as the near-RT RIC to support O-RAN experiments, and SD-Core has been deployed in ARA as the open-source 5G core for the state of the art massive MIMO gNB systems Ericsson AIR 6419 and AIR 5322. SD-Core has also been deployed in adopted by the ARA OTIC to serve as the an open-source core for O-RAN testing and integration activities such as , for instance, those in the NTIA Innovation Fund project ACCoRD. The blueprints on deploying Aether and Aether-based experiments in ARA are expected to be made available around spring/summer 2025.
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