The 5G standards body, 3GPP, is working to enable the virtualization and disaggregation of the radio access network (RAN). Analog Devices (ADI) and Intel said they are collaborating on a scalable platform to enable this new software-centric architecture.
The new radio platform combines ADI’s software-defined radio frequency (RF) transceiver technology with the high performance and low power of computer science vs information technology 10 field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), offering developers a new set of design tools to optimize the designs of open-system 5G remote radio units (O-RU). In the proposed configuration, open RUs would connect to the network through open distributed units, or O-DUs.
Telecom operators are looking to reduce development time and cost-effectively implement new solutions to increase the performance and reliability of 5G networks. They have already started doing this by implementing open systems in their network cores and virtualizing functions, and now they want to do the same with their RANs. This is where the new radio platform designed by Intel and ADI comes in; it is supposed to reduce overall design cost and accelerate customer time-to-market without sacrificing system-level performance.
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