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A spin-off of Silicon Austria Labs
A private 5G network.
In a box.
Pre-integrated hardware, browser-based orchestration, and OAI, srsRAN and Open5GS validated out of the box. Operational in hours — not the three-to-six months a generic SDR costs you.
Signal path
Five stages · one integrated system
Orchestration
Control Center
Experiments · CI/CD
The product
RANovate Testbox
OC-SDR1 + NUC host
Software
Validated Stack
OAI · srsRAN · Open5GS
Air interface
Live 5G NR Link
Band n78 · 100 MHz
Output
Structured KPI report · under 30 minutes
Delivered to
- Universities
- Semiconductor
- Industrial
- Telecom R&D
Who it's for
Find your lab.
- 01
Universities & Research Labs
Teaching, hands-on experimentation and 6G testbeds — entering on grant budget rather than procurement budget.
- 02
Semiconductor Validation
Per-engineer early assessment before certified compliance testing. Driven by product deadlines, not annual budget cycles.
- 03
Telecom R&D & Vendors
Prototyping, standards testing, interoperability and reproducible regression validation.
- 04
Industrial Private 5G
Evaluate network performance for factories, ports and campuses before committing to production.
€5,000System price, from
10–20×Below compliance T&M
Validated by 8 signed LOIs + 1 MoU
- Open-Cells
- AR Consulting
- Pi-Radio
Validation
"A complementary validation environment — not a market competitor."
Dr. Ian C. Wong
Senior Director of RF & Wireless Architecture, VIAVI Solutions · Co-Chair, O-RAN Alliance Test and Integration Focus Group
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Signed LOIs + MoU
Before shipping a single commercial unit
€12,500
FFG Patent.Scheck
Austrian Research Promotion Agency confirmed novelty
5
Years of testbed R&D
SAL, Eurecom and Aalborg University
The Control Center
The testbed, in a browser tab.
Deploy a stack, watch parameters stream, run the regression suite, take the report — from any machine on the network. The instrument stops being a room you book.
Views and terminology are the shipping Control Center; the values shown are illustrative, not a customer result.
Explore the Control Centerapp.ranovate.net/dashboard/monitoringIllustrative
DashboardParameter Monitoring
Deploy jobs · node-01 – node-03
JOB-4192OAI gNB + Open5GSnode-01running
JOB-4188Open5GS corenode-02done
JOB-4187srsRAN gNB + UEnode-03done
Downlink throughput · UE
377Mbps
build 2026.02.26-rc2 · 62 parameter fields · window 350–470 Mbps
Test catalog
TC-101Attach Procedurepass
TC-205Handover Stabilityfail
TC-331QoS Bearer Validationrunning
TC-410Latency Profilepass
schedule 0 */6 * * * · max latency 80 ms · max packet loss 1.5 %
Total runs
348
Pass rate
91%
Fail rate
9%
2026.02.25-rc1108/12
2026.02.26-rc2124/8
2026.02.26-hotfix84/12
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The problem
€100,000
per compliance instrument — shared across an entire team.
Engineers book time, wait, run limited experiments, then release the equipment. The feedback loop stretches from hours to weeks.
Extreme 1
Compliance instruments
Rohde & Schwarz, Keysight, Anritsu. Technically excellent — and structurally unavailable to the engineer who needs to iterate today.
Extreme 2
Generic SDR platforms
NI/Ettus USRP. Flexible and affordable — but3–6 months of timing references, driver conflicts and baseband stabilization before a stable 5G link.
RANovate
The missing middle
Pre-integrated and pre-validated. Select a template, launch, and get structured KPI reports in minutes — version-controlled and reproducible across institutions.
The platform
Five layers. One integrated system.
Professional Open Hardware
OC-SDR1 half-width PCIe card — AD9371 RF transceiver + Xilinx Artix UltraScale+ FPGA. 100 MHz bandwidth, 400 MHz–6 GHz, phase-coherent 4×4 MIMO with two cards. GPS-DO timing within 65 ns.
Optimized Driver & Interface
A stack-aligned driver that bypasses generic UHD middleware. The same software runs on existing USRP hardware via a software-only license.
Automation & Orchestration
Remote configuration, scenario scripting, automated regression testing, native CI/CD integration — deployable on RANovate hardware or as a standalone license.
Pre-Integrated Open RAN Stack
Native turnkey support for OAI, srsRAN and Open5GS — pre-configured and pre-validated. Upgrades ship as tested, versioned releases, not raw upstream commits.
AI Deployment Assistant
A domain-specific assistant that translates natural-language intent into deterministic, validated configuration — checked against a rule engine before anything executes.
Precision
Measured, not estimated.
A patent-pending algorithm decomposes end-to-end latency into its per-layer contribution — PHY, MAC, RLC, PDCP — correcting for Linux scheduler preemption and PCIe DMA variance along the way.
Figures below are illustrative of a Band n78, 100 MHz configured-grant reference measurement — not a specific customer result.
End-to-end latency
4.21ms
Configuration
Band n78 · 100 MHz · configured grant
PHY
MAC
RLC
PDCP
PHY1.84ADC → decode
MAC0.92scheduling
RLC0.40segmentation
PDCP1.05delivery
Distribution · 512 samples
p50 4.19 · p99 5.02
Scheduler preemption correctedPCIe DMA variance correctedPatent-pending · FFG FO999940976
Why RANovate
Months of integration, collapsed into hours.
The automation isn't an add-on — it is the product. Scenario scripting, version-controlled experiment profiles and built-in CI/CD replace the consulting overhead that makes generic SDR deployments expensive to keep running.
Reproducible
Version-controlled experiment profiles. Results replicate across machines, teams and institutions — not just on the one workstation that happens to work.
Research-grade
Standards-aligned, with patent-pending per-layer latency measurement. Not a hobbyist SDR project.
Vendor-neutral
Built entirely on open-source OAI, srsRAN and Open5GS. Full code transparency — no lock-in, no black boxes.
The comparison
Where RANovate sits.
Not a cheaper compliance instrument, and not another SDR project to integrate yourself. A third category, built for iteration.
| Compliance instruments | Generic SDR | RANovate | |
|---|---|---|---|
| System price | €100,000+ per instrument | Comparable up-front hardware cost | €5,000, from |
| Time to a working link | Booked in advance, shared queue | 3–6 months of integration | Hours |
| Access model | Shared across an entire team | Dedicated, but do-it-yourself | Dedicated, pre-integrated |
| RAN stack | Closed, vendor-controlled | Bring your own — unvalidated | OAI / srsRAN / Open5GS, validated |
| Reproducibility | Certified for compliance, not iteration | Whatever happens to work on one workstation | Version-controlled, CI/CD |
Generic-SDR figures reflect typical NI/Ettus USRP integration effort, not a specific vendor quote.
The ecosystem
A network of labs, already live.
The same geography the Control Center manages in production — reference installations, research collaborators, and the partners who validated the platform before its first commercial unit shipped.
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Partners
2
Reference sites
2
Research links
- Headquarters
- Reference site
- Research
- Partner
All 12 locations
RANovate
Linz, Austria
Silicon Austria Labs
Linz, Austria
Johannes Kepler University Linz
Linz, Austria
Eurecom
Sophia Antipolis, France
Aalborg University
Aalborg, Denmark
VIAVI Solutions
USA
Benetel
Ireland
Open-Cells
France
Qoherent
Canada
TMYTEK
Taiwan
AR Consulting
United Kingdom
Pi-Radio
USA
Questions
Before you ask.
The four questions every engineer asks first, answered plainly.
See the full FAQIs RANovate an O-RAN platform?
No. RANovate is a research and validation platform — O-RAN, private 5G, URLLC, AI-RAN and mmWave are scenarios it supports, not what it is. If your work touches one of them, the testbox runs it; if it doesn't, nothing about the platform assumes it will.
How is this different from a compliance instrument like a Keysight or R&S box?
Compliance instruments are technically excellent and built for certification — which is exactly why they're shared, queued, and structurally unavailable to an engineer who needs to iterate today. RANovate isn't a cheaper compliance instrument; it's a dedicated environment for the exploratory work that happens before you ever need one.
I already own USRP or Ettus hardware. Do I need to replace it?
Not necessarily. The validated OAI / srsRAN / Open5GS stack that ships on the RANovate testbox is also available as a software-only deployment on existing USRP hardware, so gear you already own is not stranded.
Is this a private-5G deployment product?
No — RANovate is built for research, prototyping and validation, not commercial network operation. Private 5G is one of the scenarios teams validate on it, not a service RANovate deploys for you.
See it running on your problem.
Thirty minutes is enough to know whether RANovate fits your lab. No obligation, no sales script.