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Radisys Unveils Multi-vendor Virtualized RAN Accelerator Platform for Operators

Radisys Unveils Multi-vendor Virtualized RAN Accelerator Platform for Operators Image Credit: Radisys

Radisys announced the delivery of a smart, virtualized RAN Accelerator solution for mobile operators.

The solution is designed to offload compute-intensive operations such as networking and cryptography workloads onto FPGA boards and free up valuable CPU resources on standard x86 platforms. Utilizing this offload technique, mobile operators can gain 10x performance for virtualized 5G applications running on standard server platforms and overcome performance bottlenecks, claims Radisys.

The solution leverages Radisys’ RAN software, Napatech’s SmartNICs based on Xilinx FPGAs, and Silex Inside crypto technology to provide a performance/cost and performance/power platform that scales from 1G to more than 10G on standard servers, driving significantly better ROI for mobile operators.

Powered by Radisys’ MobilityEngine RAN software, the virtualized RAN accelerator solution addresses these network performance challenges by offloading complex networking and cryptography workloads from the servers to FPGA-based SmartNICs, freeing up the compute resources on the central unit servers to handle VNF processing, and thereby increasing the efficiency of all CPUs and delivering an overall 10x performance improvement for NFV infrastructure.

According to Radisys, by reducing overall power consumption and CPU utilization, the overall system performance is significantly increased, resulting in a scalable optimized performance/cost and performance/power solution.In addition, Radisys provides end-to-end systems integration for a faster time-to-market.

Neeraj Patel, VP and GM, Software & Services Solutions, Radisys
This joint solution from Radisys, Xilinx and Napatech integrates best-of-breed technologies to deliver a true multi-vendor virtualized RAN Accelerator platform that allows mobile operators to rapidly scale 5G service deployments in an NFV environment, while meeting their requirements for performance, power and cost. 

Farhad Shafai, VP - Communications Markets, Xilinx 
The integration of the Xilinx FPGA based Napatech SmartNIC and Radisys RAN Software into an NFV Accelerated RAN solution is the beginning of a new network paradigm that offers inherent adaptable-compute power to address these challenges and fully realize the potential of 5G.

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