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LINK QUALITY PREDICTION: Delivering Better Service Performance and Improved Network Efficiency with Predictive Network And Service Characterisation

Intel® Rack Scale Design architecture provides scalable network services for MNOs as well as access to specialized resources including FPGAs and Intel® Movidius™ Vision Processing Units.

“Cloud-in-a-Box” platform, optimized for Intel® Xeon® processor-based servers, provides complete OpenStack-based service deployment infrastructure, augmented with open source software for automation of ongoing software maintenance.

Qwilt’s Open Edge Cloud architecture allows mobile network operators to build low latency, highly scalable CDNs for their content services or for third-party content partners.

This Solution Brief explains how Verbio uses network edge servers based on Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors with optimized software to maximize performance and take advantage of reduced latency.

Using open source software and Intel® Xeon® processor-based servers, Accenture Cloud Innovation Center has created a service assurance solution that meets the needs of a tier one communication service provider.

Company uses openHAB*-based platform on Intel® processor-powered servers and gateways to allow an IP cable television operator to offer a service that manages and automates disparate smart home systems.

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.