COTS Software Defined Radio (SDR) products have been traditionally used for Military radar and communication applications because of their high performance and design flexibility. The latest SDR products offer SoC solutions with integrated I/O, ARM processors, and large FPGAs that include intellectual property for accessing, routing, and processing digital data. Combining these attributes with superior signal integrity, phase-coherent sampling, and multi-channel transceivers delivers a COTS SDR system that is an ideal choice for 5G development.