Mavenir and Xilinx Collaborate to Bring to Market Open RAN Massive MIMO Portfolio
April 13 2021 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
- Mavenir and Xilinx form collaboration to accelerate the Open
RAN ecosystem with leading Open RAN massive MIMO portfolio
- Successfully integrated Massive MIMO end-to-end using Open RAN
principles
- The first Massive MIMO 64TRX product expected in late 2021
Mavenir, the industry’s only end-to-end cloud-native Network
Software Provider and a leader in accelerating software network
transformation for communications service providers (CSPs), and
Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX), the leader in adaptive computing,
announced today the companies are collaborating to bring to market
a unified 4G/5G O-RAN massive MIMO (mMIMO) portfolio to enable Open
RAN deployments. The first mMIMO 64TRX joint solution is expected
to be available in Q4 2021.
Working together, the two companies have successfully completed
end-to-end integration of a first-generation mMIMO solution using
Open RAN principles. Held at the Mavenir Lab in Bangalore, India,
the integration covered multiple deployment scenarios and was
evaluated by six CSPs, all leading global operators. Mavenir
delivered the Virtualized RAN (vRAN) support for mMIMO, including
Core Network, CU and DU, with Xilinx providing the Category B O-RAN
Radio Unit.
“This integration demonstrates an efficient Open RAN massive
MIMO solution to achieve diversification of the telecommunications
supply chain,” says Pardeep Kohli, President and CEO, Mavenir.
“This is an important milestone in the delivery of open and
interoperable interfaces enabling the deployment of mMIMO in high
density, high mobile traffic metro areas.”
“We were early proponents of Open RAN technology along with
Mavenir and actively led in standards development in the industry
through many field trials around the world,” said Liam Madden,
executive vice president and general manager, Wired and Wireless
Group at Xilinx. “With the investment we have done on our
market-leading wireless radio technology and massive MIMO R&D,
we are excited to collaborate with Mavenir to bring our collective
technology and radio system expertise together that will accelerate
the deployment of market leading 5G O-RAN massive MIMO radio
solutions.”
With history of leadership success in various 4G and 5G network
deployments worldwide, the companies are jointly developing the
next generation of mMIMO products which will bring the world’s
first O-RAN compliant 64TRX mMIMO products that support up to
400MHz instantaneous bandwidth in a compact form factor. Mavenir's
vRAN software supports Multi-User MIMO with up to 16 layers,
advanced receiver algorithms, full digital beamforming - all
running on Mavenir's open and flexible cloud-native platform, as
well as on other cloud platforms.
These products will leverage Xilinx’s technology platform
including RFSoC DFE and Versal AI for advanced beamforming,
delivering a fully integrated hardware and software O-RAN compliant
mMIMO solution.
“5G Open RAN has significant momentum in the market with ABI
Research forecasting network vendor spending to reach $10 billion
by 2026-27 and then surpass traditional RAN at $30 billion by
2030,” said Dimitris Mavrakis, senior research director of 5G at
ABI Research. “As Mavenir and Xilinx continue to work together to
accelerate O-RAN-based massive MIMO adoption, their solutions will
be well-timed to serve this high-growth market with the higher
spectral efficiency, performance, power efficiency and cost needed
as 5G demand intensifies.”
About Mavenir:
Mavenir is building the future of networks and pioneering
advanced technology, focusing on the vision of a single,
software-based automated network that runs on any cloud. As the
industry's only end-to-end, cloud-native network software provider,
Mavenir is focused on transforming the way the world connects,
accelerating software network transformation for 250+
Communications Service Providers in over 120 countries, which serve
more than 50% of the world’s subscribers. www.mavenir.com
About Xilinx:
Xilinx, Inc. develops highly flexible and adaptive processing
platforms that enable rapid innovation across a variety of
technologies - from the cloud, to the edge, to the endpoint. Xilinx
is the inventor of the FPGA and Adaptive SoCs (including our
Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platform, or ACAP), designed to
deliver the most dynamic computing technology in the industry. We
collaborate with our customers to create scalable, differentiated
and intelligent solutions that enable the adaptable, intelligent
and connected world of the future. For more information, visit
xilinx.com.
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