Qualcomm and Vodafone buddy up to develop 5G Open RAN infrastructure

US chip designer Qualcomm and UK operator group Vodafone are collaborating on high-performance, energy efficient 5G vDU and Massive MIMO RU solutions.
The two firms plan to develop, test and integrate next-generation 5G distributed units (DUs) and Radio Unit (RU) with Massive MIMO capabilities, with the purpose of enabling the commercial deployment of Open RAN in Europe.
The 5G Open RAN solutions will be powered by the Qualcomm X100 5G RAN Accelerator Card and the Qualcomm QRU100 5G RAN Platform