Deepak Saini

NEC Aspire's O-RAN Lab

• To lead Open RAN system integration ecosystem to deliver Open RAN roadmap, driving results across product integration, network services, support and End-to-End Radio product validation and successful deployment in the field.
• To drive technical relationship with Open RAN vendors in the areas of product responsibility, benchmarking, roadmap, and performance management. Support or lead RFQ based technical assessments.
• Integration and designing complex multi-vendor & multi-site Open RAN systems along with building and designing the end to end test & measurement platform to support multi-vendor Open RAN test & validation activities.
• Experience of using specialised Test & Measurement tools {UE Simulator, Test UE, Data Traffic simulator, Core Network Simulator, Vector signal Analyser (VSA), Vector signal Generator(VSG), UE log analysis tools etc} along with packet capture tools (e.g. tcpdump, wireshark etc.) to execute test suites and reporting.
• Develop the technical test specification documentations for Integration, interoperability and E2E performance testing. Lab based Inter-operability and E2E performance testing of Open RAN systems using various Test and Measurement equipments
• Reporting of technical observations and performance KPIs as key lessons learned as they emerge from interoperability and E2E testing leading to formal documentation reports.
  

Benetel (System Test and Integration Lead)

• Customer integration of Benetel radio with various O-DU vendors such as Mavenir, Radisys, OAI, SRS, Capgemini, QCT and Pegatron.
• Fully staging of server platforms with a L1, O-DU stack for in house radio integration and system test.
• Strategic test & validation discussions to define the test execution plan for different FH interfaces C/U/S/M plane and executing and managing the interoperability and E2E testing plan for performance evaluation and benchmarking of the Benetel radio deployed in various customer locations.
• Leading the M-plane system Test for Benetel radio. Defining and executing M-plane conformance testcase and validation of M-plane functionalities.
• Conducting detailed analysis of the observations (during integration and testing of Benetel RAN650/550 radio) to resolve the issues and optimize the performance, and capturing the lessons learned about the process, maturity of Open RAN elements, and main integration/interoperability challenges of the multi-vendor Open RAN solutions.

• Good Experience on Mavenir's ORAN 5G SA/NSA Containerized solution.
• Experience on MWP (Mavenir Web scale Platform) Dimensioning, Solution planning, Deployment planning with PLM, NPI and R&D.
• Responsible for end-to-end network deployment trials for vRAN & ORAN for global customers. Need to discuss the end-to-end network product, scope, and understand the customer requirement.
• Support system integration, performance testing, system demonstration and lab trials for end-to-end system.
• hands-on experience on operation of GPP COTS hardware and enable separation of HW and SW vendors in the provision of the vRAN platform.
• Technical documents writing like HLD, LLD, CIQ and Proposal documents.
• Experience on CU-CP, CU-UP, vDU deployment on mavenir containerized MWP solution and different O-RU like MTI, Comba, Fujitsu, Benetel and NEC.
• Providing technical support to customers for many KPI related, configuration related issues.
• Hands on and Working Experience with Virtualization, Cloud, Kubernetes, Containerization.

• Extensive experience in consultative domain support for RAN consulting in different RFP for Wireless Area networking bidding as Domain support
• As a Domain Support Specialist, scoping for end-to-end Solution for RAN product/Services, have end-to-end
• Expert level knowledge and experience to support Network’s solutions.

• Deployment and troubleshooting of LTE/5G nodes
• Good knowledge and working experience with RAN & LRAN Integration and Fault Management
• Deployment Support Activities Such as NSB Site Integration, IDL2_De-sectorization, BBU Swap, Sectorization and New Carrier Addition
• Actively done Handover definitions, alarm troubleshooting, parameter changes & KPI issues of LTE E-NODEB as a part of 2 Level supports
• Troubleshooting of KPI related issue and implementation of solutions
• RET & TMA definition, Radio Modernization Post Radio/Antenna Swap
• Hands-on experience in using performance and configuration management tools
• Having Knowledge and Experience in Trouble shooting the Interfaces in the LTE domain Proactively look for areas to improve LTE network performance and to meet network KPIs.

• Alarm Troubleshooting in NodeB, RNC using Element manager and Moshell Enabling, Decoding and Analyzing UETR, CTR and GPEH Scanner for Call traces
• Enabling call traces and fault related traces for capture Network problem, Network performance for analyzing the Drop calls RRC degrade, RAB degrade issue
• Troubleshooting and maintenance of LTE E-NodeB RBS6000 & RAN RNC 3820 & 8200 troubleshooting of KPI related issue.
• Solving Emergency, Critical, Major and minor alarms in BSC & RNC created by Level1 & GNOC team with maintaining of SLA 99%.
• BSS KPI analysis and work on the same to improve the KPI as TCH drop, SDCCH drop, TCH blocking, SDCCH blocking, TBF drop etc.

• L2 BSS Operation NOC support for 2G/3G/LTE network
• Team handling & providing technical support
• Monitoring & Alarm Handling
• Operation, Maintenance & trouble shooting of the APZ/APT part of ERICSSON BSC/RBSC/RNC/ENODEB
• Basic knowledge in NOC operations, Responsible for alarm monitoring those are coming from different NE (BSC, TRC & BTS) and escalate to respected team ASAP or giving reset/changing state to minimize effect on service