Ericsson notches up Open RAN calling milestone

Swedish kit maker Ericsson has shown off its cloud RAN prowess with a demo that uses Intel’s latest silicon and HPE’s telco server.
Officially unveiled at this year’s Mobile World Congress, the 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors with Intel vRAN Boost, promise to handle everything required of them when it comes to the RAN – from baseband processing to the application layer – without assistance from dedicated acceleration hardware, which Intel argues adds to the c