UPDATE A member of the embattled O-RAN Alliance, AccelerComm, announced last week that it has created a 7.2x 5G O-RAN standards-compliant base station design for either indoor or outdoor deployments utilizing Silicom’s N5010 platform. Inside Towers reported last week on Nokia’s freezing of funds to the Alliance due to the group’s connections to the Chinese military.
The project, developed for a 5G network infrastructure vendor, combines technology from the two companies to deliver a solution that is designed to increase reliability while reducing latency and 5G power consumption.
Rob Barnes, Chief Commercial Officer at AccelerComm, issued a statement in support of the Alliance saying: “For 5G to meet its full potential it is critical that the whole O-RAN ecosystem works together to maximize the benefits from this technology. Working with Silicom we are combining our areas of expertise to produce a solution which significantly improves spectral efficiency and network performance while reducing resource requirements and power consumption for 5G RAN equipment, helping deliver on the promise of Open RAN.”
The design hopes to provide a low-risk, fast time-to-market solution for 5G equipment vendors to drive the O-RAN industry forward. For the design, AccelerComm’s PUSCH Decoder and the PDSCH Encoder were integrated onto the Intel® Stratix 10 DX FPGA, which is a part of Silicom’s N5010 card utilizing Intel® Open FPGA Stack (Intel® OFS) Software infrastructure, to provide a Layer 1 High PHY accelerator function.
The O-RAN Alliance was formed to enable vendors such as AccelerComm and Silicom to partner and bring their expertise to market, replacing the closed ecosystems which typically involve just a single vendor.
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