Overview

Network-optimized 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors are designed to support diverse network environments, helping your infrastructure evolve as your network demands increase and change to meet new 5G use cases.
Optimized for many workloads and performance levels, the 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors are available in a wide range of cores, frequency, features and power. When paired with Intel’s platform ingredients and software toolkits, the new generation of processors offer a complete set of network technology solutions for customers to build on and achieve their desired total cost of ownership.
In collaboration with the Intel® Network Builders ecosystem, Intel is delivering solution blueprints based on 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors. This results in accelerated qualification and shortened time-to-deployment for vRAN, NFVI, virtual CDN and many more network workloads.
Solutions
Network Edge
Solution Brief
NetApp, Supermicro Deliver Low-Latency Thick Edge Computing
NetApp virtualization, data management software enables next-gen AI container-based workflows to run with legacy VMs. Supermicro servers optimize storage, hyperconvergence using 3rd generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors.
Webcast
Edge Computing Solutions
Edge computing extends the capabilities of today’s cloud models and unlocks many opportunities for various market segments. However, edge computing comes with some key challenges that need to be addressed to allow for this potential to be unlocked. During this session Lenovo and Red Hat will highlight our combined solution that provides a hybrid, open, scalable, and automated infrastructure. Lenovo’s comprehensive hardware and software portfolio alongside Red Hat’s platforms provides the building blocks for these infrastructures. We will also focus our ecosystem partners and highlight a few key use cases including Smart Factory and Smart City. This talk will be presented by Chadie Ghadie, Director, Edge Computing Business Development at Lenovo, and Hanen Garcia, Global Telco Solutions Manager at Red Hat.
Solution Brief
New Lenovo ThinkEdge450 Edge server enables 5G RAN and MEC Applications
Built with 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® scalable processors and tuned for commercial software built with Intel® Smart Edge Open technology, Lenovo Edge Servers help CoSPs and Enterprises with 5G network transformation
Wireline & Core Network
White Paper
Casa Systems’ Framework Provides Private 5G Network Functionality
Casa Systems’ Axyom Software Framework provides private 5G network functionality utilizing Red Hat OpenShift and 3rd generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor-based servers.
White Paper
New CPU Generation Improves Speed and Cost-Effectiveness for vBNG
Tests of virtual broadband network gateways (vBNG) using 3rd generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors show up to 20% better performance and up to 56% improvement in performance per dollar processor spending compared to the previous CPU generation.
White Paper
ZTE's High Performance 5G Core Network UPF Implementation Based on 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors
This paper describes ZTE's 5G core network UPF solution based on the latest 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors and Intel Ethernet 800 Series Network Adapters with Dynamic Device Personalization (DDP) capabilities.
Solution Brief
Metaswitch SBC Tests Show 26% Media Transcoding Improvement
To demonstrate the performance of Metaswitch’s Perimeta SBC, the company teamed up with Intel to test the media transcoding, signaling, and passthrough capabilities of the software on a server powered by the latest 3rd generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor. Tests showed a 26% increase in media transcoding, 15% increase in signaling, and 15% increase in RTP passthrough performance.
White Paper
Maximizing vCMTS Data Plane Performance with 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processor Architecture
This paper is a detailed study of how a virtualized Cable Modem Termination System (vCMTS) data-plane workload can take advantage of the advanced features of 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor architecture enhancements such as bigger cache-sizes at each level, higher core-count, more memory, and specifically advanced features such as: Enhanced Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (Intel® AVX-512), Dual AES encryption engines, Intel® Vector AES New Instructions (AES-NI), Intel® Vector PCLMULQDQ carry-less multiplication instruction, Intel® QuickAssist Technology. It also provides insights into implementation options and establishes an empirical performance data baseline that can be used to estimate the capability of a vCMTS platform running on industry-standard, high-volume servers based on 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processor architecture. Actual measurements are presented for a 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processor-based system. Results shown in the paper showcase a 70% improvement in vCMTS platform performance and service group density when utilizing the maximum core Network SKU of the 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processor.
Solution Brief
Intel Select Solutions for NFVI Forwarding Platform
Intel Select Solutions for NFVI Forwarding Platform are verified configurations of compute, network, storage, and middleware elements for packet-processing-intensive network workloads that can significantly accelerate time to production and reduce TCO.
Wireless Access
White Paper
Wind River, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, & Intel Deliver 5G vRAN
Wind River Studio and HPE ProLiant DL110 Gen10 Plus servers, based on Intel® architecture technology, combine to make a powerful platform for 5G virtualized radio access networks (vRAN).
Solution Brief
Intel Select Solutions for Virtual Radio Access Network (vRAN) on Wind River Studio
Intel Select Solutions for vRAN provide pre-validated reference architectures that help accelerate development for virtualized RAN architectures. Tailored hardware based on the flexible performance of the 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors is complemented by a software stack based on Wind River Studio.
Solution Brief
Intel Select Solutions for Virtual Radio Access Network (vRAN) on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Intel Select Solutions for vRAN provide pre-validated reference architectures that help accelerate development for virtualized RAN architectures. Tailored hardware based on the flexible performance of the 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors is complemented by a software stack based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Solution Brief
Intel Select Solutions for Virtual Radio Access Network (vRAN) on VMware Telco Cloud Platform
Intel Select Solutions for vRAN provide pre-validated reference architectures that help accelerate development for virtualized RAN architectures. Tailored hardware based on the flexible performance of the 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors is complemented by a software stack based on VMware Telco Cloud Platform.
Visual Cloud
Solution Brief
Cost-Effective Growth of High-Definition and Ultra-High-Definition Video Services
ATEME enables high video transcoding density per node using the 3rd generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor, improving the key cost-per-channel metric for video content providers.
Solution Brief
Intel Select Solutions for Visual Cloud Delivery Network
Intel Select Solutions for Visual Cloud Delivery Network (VCDN) provide pre-validated configurations based on 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors to accelerate delivery of visual services in service provider networks, with the choice of either CentOS or Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Solution Brief
Increasing Performance and Density for Real-Time Video Transcoding
Synamedia increases transcoding channels per node on 3rd generation Intel® Xeon® processor-based servers, including up to a 30 percent improvement for SD transcoding and up to 33 percent for FHD and UHD.
Solution Brief
Advancing Video Compression Performance
MediaKind shows up to a 30 percent performance improvement with the 3rd generation Intel® Xeon® processor, enabling video service providers to scale up services with less infrastructure.
White Paper
Bridging the CDN Capacity Gap with Near 400 Gbps Video Delivery
The combination of Varnish software and Intel technology provides the throughput needed to keep up with the growing popularity and evolution of video streaming.
Hardware Platforms
Experience Kits

To accelerate your adoption of the 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, Intel has developed a series of Experience Kits. These kits support developers and technical leads with deep dive understanding of new technologies and service-enabling capabilities which are essential to enabling the network from core to edge.
Learn more about the 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Experience Kits.