Vodafone And Arm Announce New Open RAN Chipset Project
telecoms.com, Thursday, October 12,2023
Operator Vodafone has added to its recent salvo of Open RAN announcements, announcing a collaboration with Arm for a new chipset based on open architecture.
New platforms loaded with Arm-based processors optimised for use in Open RAN base stations will be developed with enough compute power to support advanced 5G services and provide advances in energy efficiency, claims the announcement.
Vodafone proclaims that through the collaboration with Arm it is committed to enabling the competitive landscape for Open RAN chipsets and the associated ecosystem by providing smaller companies with the necessary testing and verification support to get involved in using them. This move also has significant competitive implications for Intel in the telecoms context.