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Cloud-native Private 5G RAN Solution

 

Deploy your 5G network today with our pre-integrated & pre-verified solution...

... in partnership with:

Tannera, Phluido, and Effnet introduce a reference Cloud-native Private 5G RAN Solution as a pre-integrated, pre-verified, and commercial-ready solution for platform-agnostic cloud infrastructure.

Telecom industry customers need a proven Private 5G RAN solution to build custom network solutions or integrate into more complex networks or services. Our joint commitment is to ensure a successful rollout of Private 5G networks in a highly dynamic and competitive telecom environment. At the same time, the solution supports various industries and markets and unlocks the full potential of AI applications that are sensitive to system latency and demand high data rates. 

  • Full-feature 5G gNB CU and 5G gNB DU covering L3, L2 and (upper) L1 functionalities in a unique pre-integrated solution
  • Platform agnostic - runs on Arm or x86 servers
  • Supports commercial-grade Radio Units, as well as off-the-shelf software-defined radios, which enable agile spectrum and quick time-to-market
  • Supports standardized and open interfaces, which enables interoperability and reduces total cost of ownership
  • Unlocks demanding 5G throughput and latency with PCIe acceleration
  • Fully containerized to support cloud orchestration and easy deployment
  • Scalable and flexible solution that enables running a large number of cells and serving a large number of users on a single server
  • Features the efficiency benefits of Tannera’s, Phluido's and Effnet's IP at all layers: achieves the highest throughput for the limited hardware resources
  • Coexists with AI workloads (AI-and-RAN) or serves as a pipe for AI applications (AI-on-RAN)
  • Portable to embedded platforms for NTN and small-cell applications
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As a pre-integrated and pre-verified solution built from widely adopted and commercially deployed components, the Cloud-native Private 5G RAN Solution guarantees costs and time-to-market reduction.

Cloud-native Private 5G RAN Solution features 5G gNB CU and L2 features of 5G gNB DU by Effnet, Upper-L1 features of 5G gNB DU by Phluido, and UL1 accelerator by Tannera. The solution fully exploits performance of independent components, thus providing high-end communication speeds on the off-the-shelf hardware, while maintaining flexibility and scalability. 

All RAN components are fully containerized and can be conveniently orchestrated using container orchestrators like Kubernetes. However, the solution supports bare-metal deployments as well.

The consortium provides:

  • Full-feature independent CU components: 5G gNB CU-CP and 5G gNB CU-UP, containing L2 and L3 features and interfaced via standardized and open interfaces such as NG-C, NG-U, E1, F1-C, and F1-U,
  • 5G gNB DU component containing L2 functionalities also interfaced via standardized interfaces,
  • 5G gNB DU UL1 component containing all Upper-PHY functionalities,
  • DPDK/BBDEV compliant lookaside UL1 accelerator - virtualized and accessible from independent containers, that enables deployment of a large number of cells on a single server machine.

 

Our technology is ready to be deployed on multi-core platforms for multi-cell scenarios, which brings down the cost per cell, while enables the combining  of RAN with edge computing and AI.

The solution provides essential features such as inter-CU handover, intra-CU/inter-DU handover and intra-DU handover to enable variety of network deployment scenarios. Since the RAN components are modular, they can run near RUs, on the Edge, or in the cloud, providing the optimal deployment scenario for target use case.

Moreover, a single CU might be connected to a number of DUs in either co-located or dislocated scenarios.

The consortium's Cloud-native Private 5G RAN Solution is an ideal match for all these scenarios, hence covering all the applications from small private 5G networks to hyperscalers and macro cell deployments, including coexistence with edge computing and AI workloads.

Discover our Private 5G RAN Solution in a comprehensive DEMO, supported by arm .

The demo shows the Private 5G RAN Solution deployed on a general purpose server. The server is based on Ampere Altra Q80-30 processor with Arm Neoverse-N1 CPU cores. It is connected to Benetel's RAN650 commercial RU via 10 Gbps optical link. Commercial UEs are used for end-to-end functionality demonstration.

Effnet's 5G gNB CU and 5G gNB DU components, as well as Phluido's 5G UL1 run in separate containers. Tannera's lookaside acceleration IP runs on AMD-Xilinx Alveo U50 FPGA acceleration card and serves multiple cells.

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Private 5G networks
A Private 5G networks gives an organization the possibility to tailor its network according to its specific organizational needs. The consortium's flexible 5G RAN solution can run as containers on COTS hardware. The solution is platform agnostic and thanks to its interoperability supports easy and quick deployment. Flexibility of running different RAN units both on the edge and in the cloud/at the core gives customers various deployment scenario options to best fit their needs.
AI-for-RAN, AI-and-RAN, AI-on-RAN
With the consortium's cloud-native RAN solution, explore possibilities to boost performance with the use of AI-for-RAN approach in optimizing networks, how the same cloud infrastructure can ensure coexistence by adopting AI-and-RAN architecture, and how to unlock the full potential of latency-sensitive and throughput-hungry AI applications with AI-on-RAN paradigm.
Industry 4.0
With high performance and low latency solution, the consortium's 5G RAN solution solves the most mMTC (Massive Machine-Type Communications) and URLLC (Ultra-Reliable Low Latency Communications) challenges.
5G for government, military or public safety
Many scenarios like public safety, disaster relief and emergency services, lawful interception etc. require a quick deployment of a cell or a network. Similar to Private 5G use case, the consortium's pre-integrated & pre-verified solution provides the deployment flexibility, high performance, low cost, as well as easy customizations.
OEMs/ODMs
The consortium offers the licensing of RAN software or its components (5G gNB CU-CP, 5G gNB CU-UP or 5G gNB DU) or the entire solution including 5G Core (compact) to OEMs/ODMs. Since our 5G solutions are fully containerized and virtualized, they are easily deployable to any hardware platform based on x86 or Arm architecture with most PCIe acceleration cards that might be used for other acceleration tasks as well.

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