Nokian ja Qualcommin yhteistyö kenties syvenee VRAN ja ORAN suuntauksessa? Vaikka toki vaikuttaa että Qualcomm pyrkii saamaan suurempaa jalansijaa ylipäätänsä.
Qualcomm makes radio baseband chips that small cell developers have been integrating in their products for years. They are, in essence, slightly scaled up versions of the modems and RF units it puts in its phones.
But in October 2020, Qualcomm took a further step into the RAN market for 5G. It said it would be expanding its chip presence into three new platforms that sit within the Open RAN architecture.
“So we think that the vRAN and Open RAN system, because of the flexibility of the system, is the way that the network should eventually be deployed. But in discussion with operators it was a very clear message that there is no way that the current solutions out there that enable vRAN operation can compete in terms of power and performance with the vertical solutions. So that’s the gap that we want to address.
“And that’s why the massive MIMO, high performance types of use cases are the ones we are really focussing on. We really want to bring vRAN and Open RAN, and it will take a few years, to the same level of performance that an integrated solution will have. That’s why we are entering, or re-entering I should say, the business of macro.
“We are not going to do vRAN software, we are not going to compete head to head with Intel on x86 server class platforms. The idea is to focus on the PHY layer, Layer 1, accelerators and things that are more to do with the RF – the areas where we think we can really make a difference.”
“Also, we are not going to develop radios, RUs ourselves. We will develop SoCs that our customers can use to develop radio units. And those customers could be new entrants or incumbents. It’s really a silicon SoC solution that will enable [units] up to those use cases (64T/R MIMO).”
Qualcomm has said it will have its 5G RAN platforms available from 2022.
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