STATEMENT OF WORK

Wide Area Network Emulator for Next Generation Network Testing

U.S. Department of Commerce

National Telecommunications and Information Administration

Institute for Telecommunication Sciences

1. BACKGROUND

The Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (ITS) will conduct research and engineering projects that examine the feasibility of deploying Open Radio Access Network (RAN) systems consisting of radio subsystems from multiple vendors. This test equipment will be used to test Open RAN systems deployed in the CRAIN laboratory. The CRAIN 5G Laboratory requires a Wide Area Network Emulator solution to support research related to fifth generation (5G) cellular and Open RAN technologies.

2. OBJECTIVE

NTIA.ITS requires a Wide Area Network (WAN) emulator, henceforth referred to as “the system”, that is compatible able to simulate WAN impairments on a 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GBE) network. This system will be used to test the effect of WAN behavior in 5G OpenRAN systems and cabled ethernet networks.

3. TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS

NTIA.ITS requires the following items which comprise the system, with associated requirements:

1. WAN emulator unit

a. The system must have two ports (minimum) capable of 10GBE (minimum) each.

Please provide information on current support or upgradability for 25GBE and 100GBE.

b. The system must have an internal throughput up to and including 10GBE (minimum) between the two ports

c. The system must have a programmable API for automation.

d. The system must have associated licensing & hardware capable of up to 500ms delay

(minimum upper bound)

i. (0 milliseconds up to 1.5 seconds per stream (for 1Gbps link)/0.5 seconds per stream (for 10 Gbps link) – single delay, uniform, random distributions) to emulate various wired, wireless, and network elements

e. The system must have a 5us (maximum) delay resolution

f. The system must have a packet delay/loss/retransmission model based on real (or simulated) network conditions

i. bandwidth throttling, latency, jitter, packet loss, packet reordering, packet duplication, packet corruption, error insertion

ii. Network impairment traffic shaping generation types:

1. Constant

2. Normal - gaussian

3. Uniform

4. Internet

5. (optional) provide method of importing or creating custom designed traffic patterns

g. The system must simulate conditions of real WAN network links

h. The system must be able to handle frame sizes of 2048 bytes

i. The system must Automate stream impairments

j. The system must provide detailed per stream Tx Rx frames statistics for easy performance monitoring

k. The system must classify traffic on each port into separate streams

i. 4 streams (minimum) for 10GBE

ii. 16 streams (minimum) on 1 Gbps

l. The system must support both Raw (bit level) and Packet mode (header fields) stream configurations

m. The system must support up to 120 bytes wide stream definitions covering entire packet header from MAC to UDP and also Payload

n. The system must have independent per stream WAN impairments to emulate different

WAN links in a single device

o. The system must have Live throughput graphs per stream to visualize the effects of

WAN impairments on the traffic

p. The system must have a hardware solution that is FPGA based

q. Minimum intrinsic device delay 10 microseconds or less

r. Must be capable of supporting O-RAN.TIFG.TS.E2E-Test.0-R004-v08.00 test cases

6.11, 6.12, 6.13 and 6.14

s. PTP (IEEE1588v2) Transparent Clock (TC), SyncE (ITU-T G.827x, G.781) passthrough.

t. Please comment on the device’s capabilities regarding Packet Capture, Traffic

Generation and Analysis.

2. Small Form Pluggable (SFP/SFP+) layer 1 adapters. Provide SFPs or provide information on specific SFP which have been tested in the system.

a. Single Mode

i. 1310nm wavelength

ii. Duplex LC fiber interface

iii. 10GBE

iv. Quantity: 2

b. Multi Mode

i. 850nm wavelength

ii. Duplex LC fiber interface

iii. 10GBE

iv. Quantity:2

c. BIDI

i. 1270,1330nm wavelength,

ii. Simplex LC fiber interface

iii. 10GBase-LR/LW

iv. Quantity (TX-1330nm, RX-1270nm): 1

v. Quantity (TX-1270nm, RX-1330nm): 1

3. Licensing & Support

a. Associated licensing and support for 1 year minimum

4. PLACE OF PERFORMANCE

Hardware shall be delivered to NTIA.ITS, 325 Broadway, Boulder 80305; Building 1 room 2226.

5. DELIVERABLE SCHEDULE

Delivery requested within 12 weeks after Receipt of Order.

1. BACKGROUND