Qualcomm Technologies and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced plans to collaborate later this week to launch the next generation of 5G Virtualized Distributed Units (vDUs) based on the Qualcomm X100 5G RAN Accelerator Board. The collaboration aims to meet the needs of next-generation networks, simplify deployment, and reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) by delivering high-performance, O-RAN-compliant, energy-efficient, virtualized 5G cloud solutions, the partners say. Together, the companies are working to change the way networks are designed and next generation services are delivered.
Network operators are currently facing the difficult task of deploying cost-effective 5G network infrastructure while tackling the complexities of next-generation networks. The Qualcomm Technologies and HPE vDU 5G RAN solution combines a Qualcomm X100 5G RAN accelerator card with a workload-optimized HPE ProLiant DL110 Gen10 Plus Telco Server. It allows you to create the industry's first fully optimized virtual block. The system is designed to support up to four high performance accelerator cards in an extremely compact 1U server. According to a comprehensive collaborative study by HPE and Qualcomm Technologies, it will provide carriers with up to 60% lower total cost of ownership when deploying 5G networks.
The Qualcomm X100 5G RAN board is said to enable the deployment of 5G cloud and virtualized networks, offloading the server CPU from resource-intensive 5G data processing.
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