NVIDIA Aerial, xFAPI & OCUDU: Building the Future of Open AI-RAN
This demonstration presents xFAPI Release 2.3 facilitating interoperability between NVIDIA Aerial Layer 1 and OCUDU Layer 2 in an end-to-end Open RAN configuration. The setup also includes AERIAL_OAI mode, which integrates NVIDIA Aerial with Duranta (OAI) to demonstrate flexibility across different ecosystems. Key components used in the deployment are NVIDIA Aerial L1, xFAPI Release 2.3, OCUDU L2, LiteON O-RU, Aether SD-Core, a commercial UE, and Netweb Tyrone Spark AI Supercomputer. This integration showcases GPU-accelerated Layer 1 platforms working with open-source Layer 2 ecosystems for practical AI-RAN deployments.