Electronics Weekly
The companies have worked together on the Intel Atom P5900 processor for compute, connectivity and acceleration technologies.
The silicon solutions are included in Nokia’s Airscale radio access products being shipped worldwide as part of its 5G portfolio powered by Reefshark.
By adopting Reefshark for its Airscale portfolio, Nokia claims it’s boosting performance and lowering the energy footprint of 5G network rollouts.
In addition, Nokia will continue to adopt the general-purpose Intel Xeon processor in its Airframe cloud data centre for edge and core. The Xeon processor features built-in AI acceleration, and is also included in the Airscale virtual RAN and 5G core products.
Nokia’s Airscale cloud RAN virtualizes radio functions, aiming to deliver low latency and high bit rates for demanding services, as well as scalability according to demand.
Tommi Uitto, president of mobile networks at Nokia, said: “5G networks need to support billions of devices and machines, and this massive increase in volume and scale means that existing infrastructure and components must evolve rapidly, adopting technologies and techniques to enable to deploy 5G networks quickly.”
Dan Rodriguez, corporate vice president and general manager of Intel’s network platforms group, said: “Through our collaboration with Nokia, our broad portfolio of products and ASIC capabilities, we are showing the value that can be realized with a consistent, high-performance architecture across the intelligent 5G network.”
