Category: 5G
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Altran demonstrates FPGA-based Fronthaul Gateway software framework for 5G at Mobile World Congress Los Angeles Last week, at Mobile World Congress Los Angeles, Altran demonstrated its disaggregated Fronthaul Gateway software framework for mobile communications networks based, in part, on Intel FPGAs. This software framework allows wireless carriers, network equipment manufacturers (NEMs), and network equipment providers (NEPs) to accelerate large-scale 5G fronthaul deployment in a scalable manner. With 5G technology now driving growth in mobile networking,...
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Corning Announces 5G In-Building Network Collaboration with Intel using Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, Intel® FlexRAN Reference Architecture, and Intel® FPGA PAC N3000 Yesterday, Corning announced a collaborative effort with Intel to accelerate the availability of 5G communications within buildings. The collaboration will ultimately deliver a virtual platform for Corning’s 5G network solutions powered by Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, based on the Intel® FlexRAN Reference Software Architecture, and incorporating the Intel® FPGA Programmable Acceleration Card (PAC) N3000 and 10/25/40Gb Intel® Ethernet 700 Series...
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New White Paper describes high-performance Next-Generation Core Networks Proof of Concept with FPGA-based NFV acceleration Intel, Affirmed Networks, and Dell EMC describe a proof of concept for high-performance Next-Generation Core Networks (NGCN) in a new White Paper titled “Enabling Communications Service Providers to Meet 5G High Density I/O Goals through Software Optimization and Hardware Acceleration.” This White Paper describes a state-of-the-art solution for a commercial, standalone 5G core network (5GCN) that delivers 100 Gbps/CPU socket...
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Handle one million IPSec SAs at 100 Gbps using Arrive Technologies’ IPSec core and the Intel® FPGA PAC N3000 card Arrive Technologies’ FPGA-accelerated IP security (IPSec) IP core, optimized for the Intel® FPGA Programmable Acceleration Card (PAC) N3000, delivers wire-speed cryptographic processing (including AES-GCM (128/192/256), AES-CBC (128/192/256), SHA-1/2, and others) at Ethernet rates as fast as 100 Gbps while handling as many as one million Security Associations (SAs). With this sort of performance, Arrive’s IPSec solution based on the Intel...
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Silicom plans to use Intel® Agilex™ FPGAs to build smartNICs for datacenters and 5G applications Silicom has big plans for the initial shipments of Intel® Agilex™ FPGAs that it is receiving through the Intel early access program. The company plans to develop a high-end smartNIC (smart network interface card) using the FPGAs to complement its existing smartNIC Server Adapters based on Intel Arria® 10 FPGAs and Intel Stratix® 10 FPGAs. Combining these smartNICs based on...
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Colorado Engineering Inc plans lower-cost PCIe development platform based on Intel® Agilex™ FPGAs Platinum Intel Design Solutions Network member Colorado Engineering Inc (CEI) is one of the companies that’s receiving early samples of the new Intel® Agilex™ FPGA, per last week’s announcement. CEI’s headquarters overlooks Garden of the Gods park in Colorado Springs. The company has created more than fifty FPGA-based designs for a variety of clients and has been working with Intel...
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Meet 5G High Density I/O Goals through Software Optimization and Hardware Acceleration Intel, Affirmed Networks, and Dell EMC have developed a proof of concept for high-performance Next-Generation Core Networks (NGCN). Together, the three companies have written and published a White Paper that presents a state-of-the-art solution for a commercial, standalone 5G core network (5GCN) that achieves 100 Gbps/CPU socket using a 100 GbE NIC plugged into a server based on an...
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Intel and Partners Demo End-to-End 5G Picocell Solution at MWC Shanghai Picocells are critical network elements that will be required for low-cost densification of 5G networks. Densification will create wireless networks that are more agile, more elastic, and more intelligent while delivering better network performance, at lower cost, and with better energy efficiency. Last month at MWC Shanghai, Intel and some of its 5G partners demonstrated an end-to-end picocell solution...
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Develop custom 200 Gbps packet-processing pipelines using Netcope P4 for SmartNICs based on Intel® Stratix® 10 FPGAs P4 is the latest high-level programming language for network packet-processing, data-plane pipeline development and FPGAs make excellent, high-performance targets for executing compiled P4 programs. P4 is an open-source, permissively licensed language maintained by the non-profit P4 Language Consortium. Netcope has just upgraded its cloud-based P4 compiler so that it is now capable of generating netlists for Intel® Stratix® 10...
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Join Intel and 5G ecosystem partners at MWC Shanghai 2019 for picocell base station reference platform demos Indoor picocells will play an extremely vital role in achieving ambitious 5G cellular service goals in terms of of coverage, capacity, and ubiquitous services. These goals will be achieved primarily through network densification. Intel has been working with customers and partners to develop many end-to-end solutions for the 5G market, which includes indoor picocells. The Intel picocell end-to-end solution...
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