HPE continues edge into telecoms, and is now working with Qualcomm to on {hardware} for 5G networks, particularly a subsequent era of 5G distributed models based mostly on HPE servers and Qualcomm’s 5G RAN (radio entry community) accelerator playing cards to assist excessive capability and low-latency workloads.

The 2 companies stated that this new collaboration goals to satisfy the calls for of next-generation networks, and can concentrate on delivering high-performance, cloud-native, OpenRAN-compliant 5G options for community operators.

HPE and Qualcomm stated they hoped to ship the {industry}’s first totally optimised virtualized distributed unit (vDU) answer, the place a DU contains each the baseband processing and RF features in 5G community deployments.

This will likely be comprised of Qualcomm’s 5G DU X100 Accelerator Card mixed with HPE’s HPE ProLiant DL110 Gen10 Plus Telco Server. The latter is a small footprint 1U server specifically designed for telecoms functions, however can nonetheless assist as much as 4 high-performance accelerator playing cards, which lowers energy consumption even whereas supporting dense 5G mid-band and large MIMO use instances, based on the 2 companies.

The ProLiant DL110 Gen10 Plus Telco Server is predicated on Intel’s third-gen Xeon Scalable silicon with as much as 1TB reminiscence, and incorporates a quick depth chassis designed particularly for edge computing and in a position to function in harsh environmental circumstances. Qualcomm’s 5G DU X100 Accelerator Card is a PCIe inline accelerator card that the wi-fi agency launched final 12 months. It’s designed to energy cloud-native and virtualized 5G networks by offloading compute-intensive 5G baseband processing from the host CPU.

The 5G DU X100 Accelerator Card options concurrent sub-6GHz and mmWave baseband assist, which simplifies 5G deployments by offering a turnkey answer for deployment with OpenRAN fronthaul and 5G NR layer 1 Excessive processing, Qualcomm stated.

Tom Craig, vp of HPE’s communications expertise group, stated that the mixed answer would assist telecoms operators to handle the rigorous and ever-changing calls for of 5G.

“Our industry-leading carrier-grade infrastructure built-in with Qualcomm’s progressive expertise will additional profit our prospects as they increase the deployment of their 5G networks,” he stated in an announcement.

Durga Malladi, Qualcomm’s senior vp for 5G, cell broadband and infrastructure, stated that the collaboration between the 2 companies would additional the capabilities and efficiencies of 5G virtualized networks.

The transfer follows HPE’s launch of its OpenRAN Answer Stack final 12 months, whereas the agency additionally introduced a deal final month that noticed Japanese telecoms supplier Optage signal as much as deploy HPE’s 5G Core Stack for a testbed community as a part of a government-sponsored initiative. ®