IT Home News on February 21, Nokia announced today that it has partnered with NVIDIA to revolutionize the future of mobile networks with NVIDIA-powered Cloud RAN and AI technologies, further enhancing Nokia's AnyRAN solution.
According to reports, Nokia will work with NVIDIA to develop a Cloud RAN solution, which will utilize NVIDIA Grace CPU superchips for Layer 2+ processing, and will also use Nokia's In-Line Layer 1 (L1) accelerator technology and cloud RAN software. IT Home noted that Nokia will also use NVIDIA GPUs for AI applications and VRAN acceleration, hoping to pave the way for AI-RAN.
At the end of last year, Nokia announced that it had completed an accelerated joint lab trial of cloud RAN with ARM and HPE at the Nokia Open Cloud RAN Innovation Center in Dallas, Texas. The trial successfully completed an end-to-end Cloud RAN L3 data call, demonstrating the flexibility of Nokia's Cloud RAN solution, which uses an In-Line accelerator architecture that works seamlessly across multiple silicon fabrics. This further demonstrates the viability of Nokia's AnyRAN approach, which ensures the consistency of the functional performance of Cloud RAN and private RAN, while providing operators with more options for building Cloud RAN networks.
According to Nokia, AnyRAN is designed to help mobile operators and enterprises expand their options for building and growing RAN. In addition to Nokia's AirScale base stations and Nokia Airframe servers, the solution can run on any partner's cloud and server infrastructure, allowing for a mix of purpose-built, hybrid, and fully cloud-based RAN solutions, reducing deployment complexity and enabling deep multi-level decoupling between the cloud infrastructure layer and the data center (server) hardware layer.