Solutions Library

Many IoT applications require location services but can’t support the expense and power demands of GPS or Wi-Fi. Polte enables IoT product and application developers to add cost-effective, low-power location capabilities to IoT devices.

5G is the next technological revolution. Transformed 5G networks are designed to support a broad range of devices and use cases, with faster speeds, less latency, and more capacity. However, 5G is confronted with many challenges, first of which is TTI (Transmission Time Interval) decreasing from 1ms to 0.125ms while data rate boosting by 10 folds. This demands sharply improved processing capacity of base station, and rigorous real-time performance of software stack. In this context, the architecture design of L2 packet processing, and its implementation and optimization on x86 server platform are vital to fulfilling the 5G throughput and real-time performance target.
Huge throughput demand of 5G brings a great challenge to optimizing locking/ unlocking overhead, and translation lookaside buffer (TLB) miss when multiple tasks/threads get, split or release memory. For MAC/RLC packet processing, Intel adopts DPDK Mempool to buffer management, where the memory is mapped into hugepage. The IA-friendly BBUpooling is also adopted as the framework of FlexRAN L2+ reference library. In this regard, Intel® FlexRAN reference architecture is a solution Intel has offered for the base station.

To meet indoor cellular network demand, the Baicells M-RAN virtual small cell provides deployment flexibility and helps to minimize power and backhaul costs. Enterprises can deploy Baicells M-RAN to support today’s 4G/LTE networks and move to future 5G networks with a software update.

Traditionally, broadband network gateways (BNG) have been very hard to virtualize without using white box switches to meet data plane performance requirements. Now, Mettle Networks’ NFV BNG can deliver to performance needs using Intel® Xeon® processor-powered servers for both data plane and control plane.

Intel Select Solutions for uCPE provide a foundation for the development of uCPE products with a solution reference design and verification of performance. These systems bring the powerful performance of Intel Xeon D processor-based systems to the edge of communication service provider networks for agile service provisioning.

6WIND, Advantech, and Cloudify create virtual routers with simplified deployment and lifecycle management to scale networks. Italian CommSP EOLO utilizes this solution to create a backbone mesh connecting thousands of wireless base stations.

Intel® Select Solution for NFVI with Huawei FusionSphere equips users with workload-optimized NFVI servers incorporating next-generation technology from Intel and Huawei FusionSphere Cloud OS.

Provides an overview of the following open source device plugins: Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) plugin, Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) plugin, and Intel® QuickAssist Technology (QAT) plugin.

Discusses Node Feature Discovery (NFD), which is a Kubernetes* add-on that detects and advertises hardware and software capabilities of a platform to facilitate intelligent scheduling of a workload.

Discusses CPU Pinning and Isolation capability which enables efficient and deterministic workload utilization of available CPUs. Also discusses CPU Manager for Kubernetes*.