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Open RAN Pioneer Parallel Wireless Unveils Industry-First 5G SA Software Stack with Hardware-Agnostic DU

Open RAN Pioneer Parallel Wireless Unveils Industry-First 5G SA Software Stack with Hardware-Agnostic DU Image Credit: Parallel Wireless

Parallel Wireless has announced the general availability of its hardware-agnostic 5G Standalone (SA) software stack. The full standalone solution gives operators, private networks, and public safety networks the opportunity to deploy the Parallel Wireless RAN infrastructure across various processor hardware platforms.

The Parallel Wireless 5G SA solution is purposefully architected to run on any general-purpose computing platform, including Arm and x86. Future enhancements to the 5G solution are automatically compatible with these platforms.

Parallel Wireless has achieved a groundbreaking milestone by creating the world’s first hardware-agnostic Distributed Unit (DU). This innovation offers unprecedented flexibility to operators by decoupling the DU software stack from specific computing platforms. 

Steve Papa, Founder and CEO, Parallel Wireless

Open RAN started with a vision of interoperability and Parallel Wireless is taking that to new heights unimagined when Open RAN was first conceived. I’m proud of the work our R&D team has done given the extremely challenging technical issues that were overcome to enable our platform-agnostic 5G SA, and their unwavering commitment to advancing the industry and enabling the open ecosystem.

Anthony Magee, Senior Director of Business Development, Adtran

We are incredibly impressed with the recent advancements made by Parallel Wireless in their 5G platform-agnostic Open RAN DU. This level of innovation is precisely what we seek in our technology partners, as it allows our products to shape and transform the cellular industry. We are excited to collaborate with Parallel Wireless and together, create a significant impact in the telecom sector.

Baruch Navon, President, Parallel Wireless

The key to sustained innovation in our industry is to repeatedly embrace the latest and greatest silicon advances as well as the supply chain’s creativity delivering new form factors for use in the telecommunications infrastructure. Our 5G SA casts the widest net for sustained innovation by assuring cross-platform support. I’d also like to express our appreciation for the support of the UK’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, in contributing to our advanced research enabling this breakthrough.

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Andrea Y. Lavannya is the Senior Editor and Vertical Analyst - Telco and Techco, at The Fast Mode. Andrea covers global telecom markets, operator revenue strategies and emerging business areas, and heads thought leadership development in areas relating to CSPs, MNOs, MVNOs, MVNEs and cable.

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