eBooks

Who Disaggregated My RAN eBook

Issue link: https://hub.radisys.com/i/1302511

Contents of this Issue

Navigation

Page 8 of 42

radisys.com 9 Radisys Series — Who Disaggregated My RAN? eBook The O-RAN Alliance has a working group focused on developing reference designs for white box hardware for various RAN deployment scenarios. The Telecom Infra Project (TIP) continues to be a vibrant community of Open RAN hardware and software providers. The Open Compute Project is working to standardize white-box hardware for use in data centers and telecom networks. These open hardware designs are available to any vendor. As a result, multiple vendors are now offering RAN solutions that run on general-purpose hardware. Figure 1 shows how a combination of COTS hardware and open interfaces from the standards forums enable truly Open RAN solutions for deployments with a variety of hardware and software options to choose from. In the case of small cells, typically reference SoC platforms with PHY and radio functions are available with option 6 split advocated by the Small Cell Forum. The Small Cell Forum ensures open interfaces through FAPI and nFAPI interfaces which are available as standards that any vendor can implement as shown in Figure 2. This has led to a thriving ecosystem of small cell technology providers. Figure 1: A truly white box view of an O-RAN based radio network Figure 2: 5G Small Cell Solution – Hardware and software components

Articles in this issue

Links on this page

view archives of eBooks - Who Disaggregated My RAN eBook