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A1 Simulator Overview
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The A1 Simulator terminates the A1 interface and provides a way to test Non-RT RIC services without the need to deploy Near |nbh| RT |nbsp| RICs.

Apart from providing the A1 API, the simulator also provides an administrative API to manage policy types and manipulate
the simulator, see ":ref:`simulator-api`".

The A1 Simulator supports running multiple simulations using different versions of the A1 Application protocol and A1 Policy behaviors.

For information on how to run the simulator, see the *README.md* file in the repository.