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Marvell Unveils New 5G Open RAN DU and RU Solutions

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Marvell this week announced new 5G Open RAN DU and RU solutions with customers and partners powered by the company’s flagship OCTEON Fusion baseband processor, featuring a comprehensive suite of 5G Layer 1 (L1) inline hardware accelerators and O-RAN standards support. 

These new open, virtualized DU and massive MIMO RU solutions, which build on Marvell’s reference designs, augment traditional 5G RAN solutions that are globally deployed using the same OCTEON Fusion processors and bring high performance and power efficiency to cloud-native 5G. The announcements include the following:

Dell Technologies Announces New Open RAN Accelerator Card Developed in Collaboration with Marvell. The new Dell Open RAN Accelerator Card is a cloud-optimized vRAN Distributed Unit (DU) solution with a proven, carrier-grade baseband processor – Marvell’s OCTEON Fusion platform – that incorporates comprehensive inline 5G Layer 1 acceleration.

Analog Devices (ADI) and Marvell Collaborate on Massive MIMO for 5G OpenRAN. ADI’s MWC will feature a demonstration of a 32T32R Massive MIMO C-band Radio Unit (RU) powered by Marvell’s industry-leading OCTEON Fusion baseband processor and beamforming technology.Arm to Showcase the Arm-based Marvell OCTEON Fusion-Powered Open RAN Accelerator platform. The Marvell-designed 5G Open vRAN card, which builds on its extensive compute collaboration with Arm and enables best-in-class 5G RAN features and performance in an open and virtualized data center environment.

Powered by the OCTEON Fusion baseband processor, Marvell is enabling no-compromise Open RAN solutions with a unique combination of advantages as compared to existing alternatives:

(1) comprehensive, inline 5G Layer 1 hardware acceleration,

(2) a 5G baseband processor that is globally-proven in the leading 5G carrier networks and shipping in high volume, and 

(3) a cloud-optimized architecture that leverages open standards, open-source software tools and techniques that are widely used in hyperscale data centers. 

Raj Singh, EVP, Processor Business Unit at Marvell
Our extensive industry collaborations and Open RAN solutions showcased at Mobile World Congress position Marvell at the forefront of 5G evolution for the new world of cloud-scale, next-generation networks. Anchored by a commitment to open standards and no-compromise design principles, Marvell is thrilled to be working closely with key ecosystem partners to accelerate innovation and unlock the immense market opportunity for new 5G services.

Dennis Hoffman, SVP and GM, Dell Technologies Telecom Systems Business
Our Open RAN Accelerator brings the same Marvell baseband silicon technology and performance of today’s leading 5G radio networks to the open ecosystem, giving communications service providers another alternative to scale modern, open-architecture radio access networks with better performance, power- and cost-efficiency.

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