Samsung and Vodafone Complete First Data Call With AMD Processors on an Open RAN Network – Samsung Global Newsroom

Firms reinforce Open RAN enlargement, leveraging their technical experience amassed from large-scale business Open RAN community deployment

Samsung Electronics and Vodafone, in collaboration with AMD, immediately introduced that the three corporations have efficiently demonstrated an end-to-end name with the latest AMD processors enabling Open RAN know-how, a primary for the {industry}. This joint achievement represents the businesses’ technical management in enriching the Open RAN ecosystem all through the {industry}.

Carried out in Samsung’s R&D lab in Korea, the primary name was accomplished utilizing Samsung’s versatile, O-RAN-compliant, virtualized RAN (vRAN) software program, powered by AMD EPYC™ 8004 Sequence processors on Supermicro’s Telco/Edge servers, supported by Wind River Studio Container-as-a-Service (CaaS) platform. This demonstration aimed to confirm optimized efficiency, power effectivity and interoperability amongst companions’ options.

The joint demonstration represents Samsung and Vodafone’s ongoing dedication to bolster their place within the Open RAN market and develop their ecosystem with industry-leading companions. This broader and rising Open RAN ecosystem helps operators to construct and modernize cell networks with better flexibility, sooner time-to-market (TTM), and unmatched efficiency.

“Open RAN represents the forthcoming main transformation in advancing cell networks for the longer term. Reaching this milestone with high {industry} companions like Samsung and AMD reveals Vodafone’s dedication to delivering on the promise of Open RAN innovation,” stated Nadia Benabdallah, Community Technique and Engineering Director at Vodafone Group. “Vodafone is regularly seeking to innovate its community by exploring the potential and variety of the ecosystem.”

“This collective effort marks a key milestone for the cell community {industry} to steer Open RAN ahead, by embracing a number of suppliers at each layer of the community stack. The demo illustrates Samsung’s dedication to delivering the complete potential of cell networks by embracing openness,” stated June Moon, Govt Vice President & Head of R&D, Networks Enterprise at Samsung Electronics. “Samsung is consistently working with different know-how frontrunners to supply operators the means to rework their networks and capitalize on the range of the Open RAN ecosystem.”

“The telco {industry} continues to demand new ranges of efficiency and power effectivity with more and more complicated workloads and stringent effectivity targets,” stated Kumaran Siva, company vice chairman, Strategic Market Improvement, AMD. “AMD EPYC 8004 Sequence CPUs are optimized for contemporary edge and vRAN deployment fashions to allow the telco {industry}’s present evolution towards really end-to-end open, virtualized networks. We’re extraordinarily happy with our collaboration with Samsung and Vodafone, leveraging our newest knowledge middle processors to modernize legacy telco infrastructure and ship the management Open RAN efficiency, effectivity and scalability wanted to construct extremely progressive cell networks.”

“Because the telecom {industry} continues to quickly evolve, Samsung and its ecosystem companions are on the forefront of innovation and transformation,” stated Prakash Sangam, Founder & Principal of Tantra Analyst. “This technical achievement between Samsung, Vodafone and AMD validates the improved capabilities amongst all three corporations’ options and helps new distributors within the evolving Open RAN ecosystem.”

The businesses will display its take a look at end result exceeding 1Gbps throughput for multi UE on multi-cell configuration at MWC 2024.

In June 2021, Samsung turned a strategic associate for Vodafone to hold out its Open RAN imaginative and prescient to modernize legacy networks and develop a robust Open RAN ecosystem. Since then, the businesses have been increasing their collaboration, lately marking a milestone of kicking off the most important Open RAN rollout within the U.Ok. in August 2023. Samsung introduced a brand new collaboration with AMD as effectively to advance 5G vRAN and virtualized Open RAN for community transformation.

Samsung’s sturdy ecosystem illustrates its management in providing vRAN and Open RAN options which can be dependable and sustainable, exceeding telco-grade efficiency. With the objective of pre-testing and integrating, Samsung has sought to validate its vRAN and Open RAN options, to supply community operators an environment friendly path to market. Samsung has confirmed its in depth experience in business networks for Tier 1 operators in North America, Europe and Asia.

Samsung has pioneered the profitable supply of 5G end-to-end options, together with chipsets, radios and core. Via ongoing analysis and growth, Samsung drives the {industry} to advance 5G networks with its market-leading product portfolio, from vRAN 3.0, Open RAN, Core to non-public community options and AI-powered automation instruments. The corporate at present gives community options to cell operators that ship connectivity to a whole lot of tens of millions of customers worldwide.

▲ From left, Junehee Lee (Samsung Electronics), June Moon (Samsung Electronics), Nadia Benabdallah (Vodafone Group), Yago Tenorio (Vodafone Group), Alberto Ripepi (Vodafone Group), Woojune Kim (Samsung Electronics)