Softbank and Nvidia make further progress with vRAN acceleration

Japanese telco Softbank this week served up more evidence of how graphic processing units (GPUs) can do some of the heavy lifting in virtualised radio access networks (vRAN).
Together with chip maker Nvidia – which as anyone familiar with PC gaming knows is one of, if not the biggest name in the GPU market – the company on Wednesday demonstrated an image processing application running in a multi-access edge computing (MEC) environment on a vRAN augmented with a GPU.
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