Industry-First 5nm Baseband Processors Enable
Best-in-Class Performance and Energy Efficiency for Integrated and
Virtualized RAN
SANTA
CLARA, Calif., Feb. 23,
2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Marvell Technology, Inc.
(NASDAQ: MRVL), a leader in data infrastructure semiconductor
solutions, today launched its next generation OCTEON® 10 Fusion
family of baseband processors for 5G base stations—the industry's
first in 5nm process technology. Built on the Marvell® OCTEON® 10
platform, this new family of wireless processors offers enhanced 5G
feature support, energy efficiency and performance, including twice
the system capacity as the previous generation. The OCTEON Fusion
processors power networks that connect more than half of the
world's mobile subscribers. This innovative platform, adopted by
major OEMs, also includes comprehensive inline Layer 1 hardware
accelerators that bring Marvell's proven performance of
established 5G networks into open, virtualized Radio Access
Networks (vRAN).
The OCTEON 10 Fusion processors are optimized for both
high-performance and energy efficiency to address the growing
demands of 5G applications. The product family features
industry-leading Arm® Neoverse™ N2 CPU cores, a series of
programmable DSP cores, and a wide range of hardware accelerators
for 5G baseband, networking and security. One of the new hardware
accelerators is an integrated inline AI/ML engine that enables
efficient edge inferencing for RAN applications such as AI-enhanced
massive MIMO beamforming.
"Samsung and Marvell have been working closely to deliver
multiple generations of advanced radio access networks for leading
operators worldwide," said June
Moon, Executive Vice President and Head of R&D, Networks
Business at Samsung Electronics. "The companies' commitment to
expanding the vRAN ecosystem helps accelerate network
transformation. In collaboration with Marvell, we are providing
operators with outstanding 5G performance and power efficiency for
both existing and open vRAN architectures."
"Marvell's innovative 5nm OCTEON 10 Fusion processors extend the
performance and features of the Dell 5G Open RAN accelerator card
to enable carrier-grade RAN virtualization at cloud scale," said
Andrew Vaz, Vice President, Product
Management, Dell Technologies Telecom Systems Business. "We look
forward to our continued work with Marvell to deliver advanced 5G
capabilities to operators and cloud service providers on Dell
PowerEdge or any other x86 server."
"As carriers deploy more complex radio features to enhance 5G
coverage and capacity, optimized silicon with comprehensive
hardware acceleration and 5nm technology are critical to scale
system performance, power, and cost efficiency beyond the
capabilities of existing solutions based on general-purpose CPU or
FPGA technologies," said Raghib
Hussain, President of Products and Technologies at Marvell.
"OCTEON 10 Fusion is uniquely designed to enable open and scalable
vRAN with feature, performance, and power parity as compared to
traditional 5G networks."
"Mobile operators need to scale their networks to meet consumer
demand for more bandwidth and emerging opportunities like fixed
wireless access. At the same time, they must remain within tight
cost and energy envelopes," said Prakash
Sangam, Founder of Tantra Analyst. "Processors optimized for
specific 5G functions like Marvell's OCTEON 10 Fusion, provide the
performance and headroom needed for today and future networks. As
an open platform, Fusion also lets operators take advantage of
software from a wide ecosystem of developers."
Marvell is working with the leading cloud orchestration and
management software providers to validate and pre-integrate these
platforms for vRAN systems powered by OCTEON 10 Fusion processors.
This will simplify the deployment and management of 5G networks for
Marvell's customers and accelerate time-to-market for carriers.
"Red Hat and Marvell share a common vision that delivering a
more consistent, flexible foundation for accelerated 5G RAN
deployments relies on transforming compute architecture based on
open source innovation," said Honoré LaBourdette, Vice President,
Telco, Media, Entertainment & Edge Ecosystem, Red Hat. "The
validation of Red Hat OpenShift on Marvell's new OCTEON 10 Fusion
Open RAN accelerator enables best-in-class 5G RAN virtualization
for cloud orchestration and management software allowing service
providers to scale into the future."
"Operators are looking towards a cloud-native future and
searching for flexible and cost-effective solutions to reduce
deployment complexities and ongoing maintenance and grow new
services for future networks," said Avijit
Sinha, Chief Product Officer, Wind River. "Wind River
Studio delivers mature production-ready technology that is live in
deployment with operators globally. Our collaboration will further
help operators deploy and simplify the introduction of new services
and efficiently manage a physically distributed, cloud native vRAN
infrastructure with performance that matches existing 5G networks
based on Marvell's inline acceleration technology."
"Mobile network operators face a challenge in the transition
from traditional to Cloud RAN that requires proven carrier-grade
performance in an open and virtualized architecture," said Lakshmi
Mandyam, Vice President of service provider product management and
partner ecosystem at VMware. "Our work with Marvell brings together
Marvell's history of baseband leadership and their latest OCTEON 10
Fusion innovations with VMware Telco Cloud Platform RAN. This
combination provides CSPs a common foundation for deploying 5G and
traditional services in a multi-cloud environment and scalability
that optimizes the revenue and efficiency of each RAN site."
To deliver sustainability without compromise, the OCTEON 10
Fusion design combines these innovations with advanced power
management for best-in-class RAN performance per watt across a wide
range of demanding 5G use cases:
- Distributed Unit (DU) and Radio Unit (RU) applications
- Wide bandwidth Massive MIMO beamforming to 64T64R and
beyond
- Conventional and virtualized RAN (vRAN) architectures
- Open RAN with support for all L1 split options
Availability
The OCTEON 10 Fusion family of 5G
baseband processors are currently in production. Additional
resources can be found on the media kit page.
Visit us at Mobile World Congress 2023 in Barcelona at booth 2F34 in Hall 2.
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