The commercial appeal of Open RAN requires advanced testing of RIC (RAN Intelligent Controller) platforms and the xApps and rApps that run on them. A key element is the way that these apps interact and mitigation of conflicting instructions. At the recent FYUZ event in Dublin, Wireless Watch spoke with Chris Murphy, Regional CTO of EMEA at Viavi Solutions, to discuss Viavi’s role in testing recent Open RAN research projects. The first such project, led by the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) was called Accelerating RAN Intelligence in 5G (ARI-5G), and included Accelleran, Amdocs, AttoCore, BT, and VIAVI, with some funding from the UK government. The goal was to test and demonstrate four apps on a RIC platform provided by Accelleran…