Leveraging NVIDIA’s GPU technology to increase processing power and enable base station functions and edge applications to run on the same server
TOKYO, Feb 20, 2023 – (JCN Newswire) – Fujitsu today announced the launch of a new 5G vRAN solution combining Fujitsu’s virtualized CU (vCU) and virtualized DU (vDU) with NVIDIA’s (1) GPU technology. Fujitsu will start offering the new solution to customers including telecommunications carriers globally in March 2023. The new solution was developed as part of the “5G Open RAN Ecosystem” (OREC) (2) project promoted by NTT DOCOMO (3), which also supported performance verification and evaluation tests of the new solution.
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| Figure: Image of the new vRAN solution |
The solution applies NVIDIA’s GPU processing engine “NVIDIA A100X” (4) to the physical layer processing at the base station. In this way, the new solution enables parallel processing of…
