Category: 5G

• The iAbra PathWorks toolkit brings embedded AI inference, real-time video recognition to the edge with Intel® Arria® 10 FPGAs, Intel® Xeon® Gold CPUs, and Intel® Atom® processors It’s not always easy to get data to the cloud. Multi-stream computer vision applications, for example, are extremely data intensive and can overwhelm even 5G networks. A company named iAbra has created tools that build neural networks that run on FPGAs in real time, so that inference can be carried out at the edge in small, light, low-power embedded devices...
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• Arrow Electronics™ develops four complete RF reference platforms based on the Intel® Arria® 10 SoC FPGA and Analog Devices high-speed RF transceivers, ADCs, and DACs The JESD204B serial interface has become the interface standard of choice for high-speed analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters (ADCs and DACs). Intel® FPGAs and Intel® SOC FPGAs are well suited to interface to these converters using this interface and Arrow Electronics™ has developed four JESD204B reference solutions using high-speed analog RF transceivers and converter modules based on Analog Devices RF transceivers,...
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• Ciena leverages Intel technology for flexibility and programmability to accelerate the adoption of O-RAN in 5G New Radio (NR) and Next-Generation LTE. Ciena recently announced three new xHaul (fronthaul, midhaul, and backhaul) routers – the multivendor interoperable Ciena 5164, 5166, and 5168 Routers – as described in a new Ciena blog written by Brian Lavallée, Senior Director of Portfolio Marketing at Ciena. Mobile networks use the xHaul transport networks discussed in Lavallée’s blog to interconnect cell sites to each other, to the...
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• Supermicro’s new short-depth 2U Ultra SuperServer for 5G and NFV applications incorporates two 2nd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and supports the Intel® FPGA PAC N3000 accelerator card Earlier this month, Supermicro announced a new, short-depth 2U Ultra SuperServer optimized to bring powerful industry-standard platforms to 5G and telecommunications environments. The new 2029U-MTNRV Ultra SuperServer supports two 2nd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and the Intel® FPGA Programmable Acceleration Card N3000 (Intel FPGA PAC N3000), which can be used to accelerate 5G and network functions virtualization (NFV) workloads...
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• Open vSwitch for NFVi based on Intel® FPGA Programmable Acceleration Card (Intel FPGA PAC) N3000 achieves first-packet learning rate of 500K rules/sec, near-wireline performance As the numbers of subscribers, competitors, and technology advances grow, communications service providers (CoSPs) need to differentiate their products and services while keeping improved power efficiency and the need to control total cost of ownership (TCO) as ever-present goals. Intel and HCL have addressed these challenges with a joint solution that combines Intel® hardware and HCL software. HCL has created...
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• Hardware Acceleration and Segment Routing over IPv6 (SRv6) help CoSPs Optimize and Simplify their Networks Communications service providers (CoSPs) are seeking ways to differentiate themselves and to enhance their customers’ experiences in the fast-evolving telecommunication (telco) market—all while keeping costs under control. Exponential traffic growth and constant pressure to add more services and subscribers can tax legacy infrastructure, forcing CoSPs to constantly optimize and simplify their networks. Many CoSPs have deployed network functions virtualization (NFV)...
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• Can the new Intel® eASIC™ devices help you reach your 4G and 5G equipment design goals? By Ronnie Vasishsta, VP and GM, Intel Corporation   There is a lot of discussion in the industry today surrounding 5G telecommunications and networking. I even see television commercials about 5G popping up more and more. What's lost in all the excitement about 5G is that the 4G and 4G Advanced Pro standards are still in the deployment phase –...
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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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