Dell Teams Up With Marvell To Bridge Open Ran Performance Gap
Speaking with ZDNet, Dell Technologies Asia Pacific and Japan head of telecom Sam Saba explained the Open RAN Accelerator Card has been designed to bring the performance of traditional RAN solution to Open RAN. “[There’s] this gap of performance and energy consumption. Effectively, we believe now this card will bridge that performance,” he said. “The way we’re doing this is through what we call the layer 1 offload. With that, we’re looking at taking all that layer 1 processing out of the standard CPU that sits in the server, which occupies 60-70% of overall processing capacity … and putting it in a PCIe card in line into the virtual distributed unit close to the base station … in doing that we’re effectively relieving, or releasing, a lot of the capacity in the standard processing card to do more processing....