── For­ma­ti­on of Tel­co Solu­ti­ons test­ing lab with VIAVI unders­cores AMD 5G lea­der­ship and gro­wing momen­tum with eco­sys­tem part­ners inclu­ding Nokia ──

 

── New 4G/5G Zynq UltraS­ca­le+ RFSoC digi­tal front-end devices unvei­led to expand com­mu­ni­ca­ti­ons oppor­tu­ni­ties and acce­le­ra­te radio deploy­ments into cost-sen­si­ti­ve markets ──

 

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 22, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Today, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announ­ced it will be expan­ding sup­port of its gro­wing 5G part­ner eco­sys­tem span­ning from core to radio access net­works (RAN) appli­ca­ti­ons, deli­ve­ring addi­tio­nal new test capa­bi­li­ties and unvei­ling new 5G pro­ducts. The AMD wire­less tele­com part­ner eco­sys­tem has more than dou­bled in the past year, bols­te­red by the inte­gra­ti­on of the AMD and Xilinx pro­duct lines as well as the crea­ti­on of its new Tel­co Solu­ti­ons test­ing lab in col­la­bo­ra­ti­on with VIAVI.

 

Tel­co Solu­ti­ons Test­ing Lab

The for­ma­ti­on of the Tel­co Solu­ti­ons test­ing lab is vital for ope­ra­tors and tel­co solu­ti­on pro­vi­ders to test, vali­da­te and sca­le com­pu­ting resour­ces to deli­ver on the ever-incre­asing demands from RAN and edge-to-core. The test­ing lab sup­ports vali­da­ti­on of end-to-end solu­ti­ons, inclu­ding both hard­ware to soft­ware to levera­ge the per­for­mance and power effi­ci­en­ci­es of the latest AMD pro­ces­sors, Adap­ti­ve SoCs, Smart­NICs, FPGAs and DPUs. 

 

In sup­port of this mis­si­on, the VIAVI end-to-end test­ing suite was sel­ec­ted to pro­vi­de the net­work test solu­ti­on to ana­ly­ze, deve­lop and vali­da­te the impact of real-life con­di­ti­ons across an enti­re tel­co net­work. The Tel­co Solu­ti­ons test­ing lab will enable traf­fic simu­la­ti­on and gene­ra­ti­on across core, CU/DU, edge and RAN using both cur­rent and future AMD tech­no­lo­gies to allow full func­tion­al and per­for­mance test­ing that meets cur­rent and future gene­ra­ti­on eco­sys­tem requi­re­ments. Based in San­ta Cla­ra, Calif., the Tel­co Solu­ti­ons test­ing lab will bring in its first 5G eco­sys­tem part­ners begin­ning Q2 of 2023.

 

New Zynq UltraS­ca­le+ RFSoC Devices for Emer­ging 4G/5G Growth Markets

The strong adop­ti­on of 4G/5G AMD Zynq™ UltraS­ca­le+™ RFSoC and MPSoC radio tech­no­lo­gy has enab­led new inte­gra­ted remo­te radio unit designs and ope­ned new busi­ness oppor­tu­ni­ties for AMD and its part­ner eco­sys­tem. AMD is now expan­ding its Zynq UltraS­ca­le+ RFSoC digi­tal front-end (DFE) port­fo­lio with two addi­ti­ons to the fami­ly: the Zynq UltraS­ca­le+ RFSoC ZU63DR and Zynq UltraS­ca­le+ RFSoC ZU64DR devices. The­se new RFSoCs will enable the expan­si­on and deploy­ment of 4G/5G radi­os into mar­kets around the glo­be whe­re lower cost, power and spec­trum-effi­ci­ent radi­os are requi­red to address increased wire­less connectivity.

 

“AMD has made incre­di­ble pro­gress in the radio mar­ket and is proud to be show­ca­sing at MWC Bar­ce­lo­na our col­la­bo­ra­ti­on with over 15 radio sys­tem eco­sys­tem part­ners desig­ning O‑RAN-based remo­te radio units for open inter­faces using AMD Zynq UltraS­ca­le+ RFSoCs and MPSoCs,” said Salil Raje, seni­or vice pre­si­dent and gene­ral mana­ger, Adap­ti­ve and Embedded Com­pu­ting Group, AMD. “With our focus toward incre­asing 5G deploy­ments around the world, the new AMD Zynq UltraS­ca­le+ RFSoCs are espe­ci­al­ly cost-effec­ti­ve and ener­gy-effi­ci­ent, making them ide­al for emer­ging glo­bal mar­kets inclu­ding rural and out­door deployments.”

 

The Zynq UltraS­ca­le+ RFSoC ZU63DR spe­ci­fi­cal­ly tar­gets four trans­mit and four recei­ve (4T4R) and dual band ent­ry-level O‑RAN radio unit (O‑RU) appli­ca­ti­ons. The Zynq UltraS­ca­le+ RFSoC ZU64DR is tar­ge­ted for eight trans­mit and eight recei­ve (8T8R) O‑RU appli­ca­ti­ons using the 3rd Gene­ra­ti­on Part­ner Pro­ject (3GPP) split‑8 opti­on which sup­ports alter­na­ti­ve and lega­cy radio unit architectures.

 

Both RFSoC devices levera­ge the deep DFE inte­gra­ti­on available in the flag­ship Zynq UltraS­ca­le+ RFSoC ZU67DR device and are expec­ted to be in full pro­duc­tion in Q2 of 2023. AMD will show­ca­se its Zynq UltraS­ca­le+ RFSoC DFE fami­ly at the upco­ming Mobi­le World Con­gress (MWC) Bar­ce­lo­na 2023.

 

AMD Eco­sys­tem Momen­tum with Nokia

As part of the gro­wing AMD tel­co eco­sys­tem, AMD and Nokia are joint­ly announ­cing an expan­ded col­la­bo­ra­ti­on using 4th Gen AMD EPYC™ pro­ces­sor-based ser­vers to deli­ver Nokia Cloud RAN solu­ti­ons to help com­mu­ni­ca­ti­ons ser­vice pro­vi­ders achie­ve their most strin­gent ener­gy effi­ci­en­cy goals. AMD and Nokia reco­gni­ze the chal­lenges faced by ope­ra­tors deal­ing with spi­ra­ling ener­gy cos­ts and the gro­wing importance of mee­ting car­bon reduc­tion tar­gets at the core as well as the net­work edge.

 

“As part of our ambi­ti­on to pro­vi­de the best Cloud RAN solu­ti­ons, we are exci­ted to extend our col­la­bo­ra­ti­on with AMD. We are loo­king to take advan­ta­ge of the 4th Gen AMD EPYC processor’s capa­bi­li­ties to fur­ther enhan­ce Nokia’s Cloud RAN solu­ti­ons,” said Pasi Toi­va­nen, Head of Part­ner Cloud RAN Solu­ti­ons at Nokia. “Com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on ser­vice pro­vi­ders across 5G Core and Cloud RAN incre­asing­ly demand new levels of per­for­mance and ener­gy effi­ci­en­cy within their 5G net­works. Our work with AMD reco­gni­zes the chal­lenges faced by the tele­com­mu­ni­ca­ti­ons indus­try and helps to deli­ver on our part­ners’ and cus­to­mers’ most ambi­tious ener­gy effi­ci­en­cy targets.”

 

5G Inno­va­ti­on at MWC Bar­ce­lo­na 2023

At MWC 2023, AMD will show­ca­se the latest 4th Gen AMD EPYC pro­ces­sor-powered sys­tems in con­junc­tion with tech­no­lo­gy part­ners inclu­ding: Amdocs, Ground­hog, Juni­per and Nokia. 5G eco­sys­tem part­ners show­ca­sing radio solu­ti­ons with AMD include: Abs­i­de, Astro­me, AW2S, CellXi­ca, Com­ba, Fuji­tsu, Mave­nir, NEC, Solid, Tejas, Ulak, Viet­tel, VVDN and Zlink.

Visit AMD at MWC in Hall 2, Stand 2M61 from Febru­ary 27 – March 2, 2023.

 

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