VMware and Cohere Technologies to Bring Intelligent, Cloud-Native Applications to Open Radio Access Networks
June 15 2021 - 08:00AM
Business Wire
New Solution Will Improve Spectrum Efficiency
for Mobile Networks by as Much as 2x
As communication service providers (CSPs) move to open radio
access network (O-RAN) architectures, the door to innovation opens.
Partnering to accelerate this innovation, Cohere Technologies and
VMware (NYSE: VMW) today announced they are developing an O-RAN
solution to help CSPs improve network and spectrum efficiencies and
deliver new and differentiated services and experiences for their
customers.
“The RAN is by far the most costly and complex part of a CSP
network as workloads that run there require ultra-low latency and
high performance,” said Stephen Spellicy, vice president of product
marketing and solutions, Service Provider and Edge, VMware. “Our
ongoing work with Cohere Technologies shows the value of
disaggregating hardware functions and moving them to the telco
cloud. Our solution is designed to help accelerate RAN automation,
optimization, and monetization by enabling CSPs to deploy
intelligent, cloud-native RAN applications created by a growing
xApp developer community.”
The solution will bring together:
- VMware’s RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) Platform
- Cohere’s Spectrum Multiplier and Cloud Scheduler xApps
The RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) is a new function
introduced by the O-RAN Alliance that enables CSPs to deploy
cloud-native control and management apps in the RAN. Essentially,
it virtualizes the RAN Centralized Units (CUs) and Distributed
Units (DUs), where complex RAN intelligence was previously
embedded. VMware has designed its RIC platform keeping developer
experience at the center and offers a RIC Software Developer Kit
(SDK) to any third-party developer to build apps that can be
deployed in the RAN. Today most of these apps are geared toward
making the network faster, including Cohere’s Spectrum Multiplier
xApp.
Cohere’s Spectrum Multiplier and Cloud Scheduler xApps improve
spectral efficiency for CSPs by as much as 2x by enabling existing
mobile networks to communicate with multiple users simultaneously
on the same time and frequency resources. This is achieved by using
dynamic and smart pairing as well as precoding techniques. The
result is improved spectral efficiency and network latency that
helps CSPs deliver a better user experience and ease capacity
bottlenecks when demand is high. It makes their network better
equipped to deliver bandwidth-sensitive services like AR/VR
streaming, 360/4K videos, and immersive gaming, among others.
“CSPs are spending tens of billions of dollars on 5G spectrum
and being able to get the most out of that investment is critical,”
said Ray Dolan, Chairman and CEO of Cohere Technologies. “Cohere is
the first company to overcome the latency challenges of moving
critical intelligence from the RAN to the cloud using VMware’s RIC
Platform. Our software, when running on VMware’s RIC platform,
provides CSPs with a powerful solution to extend spectral
efficiency and deliver a great user experience to customers
accessing 5G services.”
The solution is expected to be available by the end of the
calendar year. To learn more about the VMware and Cohere
Technologies partnership, as well as VMware’s plans for its RIC
platform:
- Read a perspective on today’s announcement from VMware Director
of R&D Rakesh Misra: VMware and Cohere Technologies Demonstrate
the Power and Potential of Open RAN
- Read a perspective on today’s announcement from Cohere
Technologies CEO Ray Dolan: Spectrum Multiplier and Telco Cloud
Innovation for Mobile Operators
- Check out how Vodafone is working with VMware, Cohere
Technologies, and other partners to accelerate innovation in its
RAN in this blog post
About Cohere Technologies
Cohere is the innovator of massive MIMO scheduler and
Delay-Doppler channel software for mobile and enterprise networks,
and the developer of the Orthogonal Time Frequency Space (OTFS) 6G
wireless system. Cohere is a member of the Next G Alliance, the
O-RAN Alliance, the Open RAN Policy Coalition, the Open Networking
Foundation (ONF) and the National Spectrum Consortium (NSC). Cohere
is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif. For more information,
please visit: www.cohere-technologies.com and follow us on Twitter:
@Cohere_4G_5G.
About VMware
VMware software powers the world’s complex digital
infrastructure. The company’s cloud, app modernization, networking,
security, and digital workspace offerings help customers deliver
any application on any cloud across any device. Headquartered in
Palo Alto, California, VMware is committed to being a force for
good, from its breakthrough technology innovations to its global
impact. For more information, please visit
https://www.vmware.com/company.html.
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Angela Leaf VMware Global Communications Phone: +1 860 480 3367
aleaf@vmware.com
Ronny Haraldsvik Cohere Technologies Phone +1 831 224 5043
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