Qualcomm launches a new 5G distributed unit accelerator card
Today, Qualcomm Technologies announced the launch of the 5G DU X100 accelerator card, further expanding Qualcomm’s 5G RAN platform product portfolio. Qualcomm said that 5G DU X100 aims to allow existing and emerging infrastructure providers to simplify network deployment and quickly realize the large-scale commercialization of virtualized networks.
Qualcomm 5G DU X100 is a PCIe full acceleration card that supports Sub-6GHz and millimeter-wave baseband concurrency, O-RAN fronthaul, and 5G NR L1 high-level protocol stack. It is expected to simplify 5G by providing an easy-to-deploy one-stop solution to deploy. The PCIe card can be seamlessly inserted into a standard commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) server, thereby sharing the CPU processing delay-sensitive and computationally intensive 5G baseband computing tasks such as demodulation, beamforming, channel coding, and massive MIMO required for large-capacity deployment.
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“Qualcomm Technologies, with its leadership in 5G, is uniquely positioned to drive the evolution of cellular networks and lead the industry towards 5G virtualized networks,” said Durga Malladi, senior vice president and general manager, 5G, mobile broadband, and infrastructure, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. “We are working closely with mobile operators, network equipment vendors, standards bodies, and other key stakeholders, to enable the deployment of innovative, high-performance, virtualized, and modular 5G networks at scale.”
It is reported that Qualcomm Technologies is currently working with global operators and ecosystem partners such as Dell, Deutsche Telekom, DISH, HPE, NTT DOCOMO, TIM, and Vodafone to accelerate the deployment of virtualized RAN. Qualcomm 5G DU X100 will empower operators and infrastructure suppliers to more easily benefit from high-performance, low-latency, and energy-efficient 5G technology and accelerate the transformation of the cellular technology ecosystem to virtualized wireless access network technology.Qualcomm 5G DU X100 accelerator card is expected to start sampling in the first half of 2022.
