Juniper RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) Partner Validated

The Juniper RIC solution consists of Non-real-time (Non-RT) RIC and Near-RT RIC, which are both based on and fully compliant with O-RAN specifications, supporting open interfaces for multi-vendor interoperability.

- Juniper Non-RT RAN Intelligent Controller is part of Service Management and Orchestration, running at the central cloud of the Operator network and is a containerized microservices-based framework which enables non-real-time (slow loop, slower than 1 second) control of RAN elements and their resources through specialized RAN applications called rApps. - Juniper Near- RT RAN Intelligent Controller is a microservices - based containerized network function that resides within a telco cloud(edge cloud and / or regional cloud) and is responsible for intelligent edge control of RAN nodes and resources, which enables near real- time(fast loop, below a second) control of RAN elements(O - CUs and O - DUs) and their resources via E2 interface.

Juniper RIC solution is fully open and can support the deployment of both Juniper and 3rd party rApps/xApps supporting various use cases (control, on-line optimization, AI/ML based use cases) can be supported.

The Juniper RIC solution consists of Non-real-time (Non-RT) RIC and Near-RT RIC, which are both based on and fully compliant with O-RAN specifications, supporting open interfaces for multi-vendor interoperability.

Through O-RAN compliant APIs and open interfaces, the rApps and xApps (Juniper owned or 3rd party) can unleash the power of the Juniper RIC and its AI/ML engine (leveraging capabilities from Juniper Marvis) to support various innovative use-cases. For example: RAN energy efficiency optimization based on AL/ML cell load prediction to switch off specific antennas automatically, RAN slicing SLA assurance based on QoE metrics, Proactive root-cause analysis and automatic problem resolution, Specialized RAN-aware switch over and traffic steering, QoE and QoS optimization, etc.