Open RAN platform acceleration needed to deliver on operator expectations

It is clear from a recent Heavy Reading survey that wireless network operators are expecting Open RAN to deliver wireless performance and achieve significant reductions in both capex and opex costs. This will not be achieved without hardware acceleration for key network functions. Hardware acceleration is particularly important for Layer 1 processing, significantly reducing power consumption, lowering the CPU processing capacity required in COTS servers supporting Open RAN deployments and increasing wireless network performance.