Open source UE

Remote UE tunnel

Drive a UE on your own bench from a remote AEON lane using the tunnel agent — setup, NAT traversal, latency budget, and security model.

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The tunnel exists for UEs you cannot upload: a proprietary modem, a dev board, a device with a JTAG harness. The control plane crosses the internet; RF stays local to whichever side owns the radio.

Start the agent

bashbash
aeon agent install --token "$AEON_TOKEN"
sudo systemctl enable --now aeon-agent

aeon tunnel up --lane eu-west-1/lime-03 --local-ue 192.168.10.24:9000
aeon tunnel status --watch

Network requirements

  • Outbound TCP 443 only — no inbound ports, no firewall exceptions.
  • Round-trip latency under 80 ms for protocol conformance suites.
  • Under 25 ms for timing-sensitive RRM cases; otherwise use a hosted or shipped model.
  • mTLS between agent and lane; the agent never accepts inbound connections.

Latency and determinism

TTCN-3 timers are specified in 3GPP with real margins, but a jittery tunnel can still turn a PASS into an inconclusive verdict. The platform measures RTT continuously and marks any execution whose jitter exceeded the suite's budget, so you never ship a report built on a noisy link.

Run this against a real SDR lane

The tester is a service, not a box. Push a build, reserve a lane, get a verdict.