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Platforms for Future RAN Systems Operator Survey

January 30, 2025 Sponsors: Fujitsu, NVIDIA, Supermicro

Heavy Reading’s Platforms for Future RAN Systems Operator Survey written by Simon Stanley investigates how operators plan to deploy and operate future RAN systems and explores the expected use of AI-native platforms.

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Meeting the Need for Power Efficient 5G Cloud RAN

March 2023 Sponsors: AMD

The shift to cloud RAN architecture is bringing significant opportunities for wireless service providers to build out a much more agile and efficient 5G wireless infrastructure. The cloud RAN architecture enables the use of virtualized, cloud native, and open solutions. By disaggregating the RAN and separating the hardware and software platforms, wireless service providers can […]

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Open RAN Platforms and Architectures Operator Survey Report

February 2023 Sponsors: AMD, Intel, Kontron

This new open RAN platforms and architectures report uncovers the views within service providers on the readiness of the open RAN and vRAN ecosystem and first installations, the expected benefits from using open RAN / vRAN platforms and architectures, and the leading applications. The report covers the following: When and where are open RAN deployments […]

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800G Client Optics in the Data Center

December 2022 Sponsors: Cisco

Demand for high speed networking in data centers is growing rapidly driven by the massive shift to cloud services. 100G was in development for many years before there was widescale deployments in data centers. 400G was developed and deployed in hyperscale data centers relatively quickly and 800G will be deployed much quicker than many realize. […]

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Artificial Intelligence: Charting the Way Forward for AI

October 2022 Sponsors: CoreSite, Ericsson

2022 Survey of IT Leaders and Service Providers on AI Deployment This report presents the results of the Heavy Reading AI Acceleration in Data Center Service Provider Survey conducted during May and June 2022. The survey focused on investigating the opportunities and challenges for artificial intelligence (AI) adoption in data centers and operator networks and […]

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Heavy Reading’s Accelerating Open RAN Platforms Operator Survey

May 2021 Sponsors: Qualcomm, Wind River, WWT, Xilinx

This white paper written by Simon Stanley presents the key findings from the Heavy Reading “Accelerating Open RAN Platforms Survey,” conducted in March and April 2021. The combination of 5G and open RAN is driving significant opportunities for carriers and enterprises to upgrade and enhance their wireless networks without being tied to legacy equipment and […]

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Heavy Reading SmartNIC Survey 2021: Accelerating Digital Services and Cloud-Native Transition

19 March 2021 Sponsors: Intel

Cloud services, virtualized networks, ubiquitous broadband, and high speed wirelessnetworks based on LTE and 5G technology are enabling a digital services transformation.The virtualization technologies that have underpinned cloud services and virtualizednetworks are now being replaced by cloud-native architectures that are significantly morescalable. With the right CPU technology and hardware acceleration provided by smartNICs,the latest servers […]

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Capitalizing on Synergies Across 5G, Edge and Cloud Platforms White Paper

June 2020 Sponsors: Intel

The world is changing with the widespread adoption high bandwidth wireless data and cloud services, and the development of the Internet of things (IoT). Hidden behind these changes is another revolution with the shift to virtualization and the rapid growth of edge and cloud data centers to deliver these services. In this changing world, processor […]

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Domain-Specific Accelerators: What They Are & Why They Should Matter to Cloud & Network Providers

January 2019 Sponsors: Netronome

The bandwidth demands on server processors have significantly outgrown the increases in central processing unit (CPU) performance over the past few years. This is already having an impact on cloud and network service providers, which are installing a growing number of servers and data centers to meet the demand from customers. Virtualization is key to […]

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Next-Generation Platforms for Telecom Cloud Services

Saturday, 18 March 2017 Sponsors: Advantech

Telecom services are shifting to a cloud infrastructure, in which new services can be rapidly provisioned by deploying virtual network functions (VNFs) instead of physical boxes. This dramatically reduces the operating cost of carrier networks and allows carriers to invest in new infrastructure as revenue grows. To gain the full benefit of this new cloud […]

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Events

Optical Networking Digital Symposium: Driving Coherent Pluggables Across Data Centers and Metro Networks

Thursday, February 13, 2025 11am EST, 4pm GMTSponsors: Juniper, Cisco, Lumentum

Globally, operators are under tremendous pressure to boost revenues, a requirement that is becoming particularly urgent as operators invest … read more

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Columns

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What impact will AI and RAN integration have on network TCO?

What benefits do operators expect from applying AI to the RAN?

Industry Innovations Drive Metro and Long-Haul Network Performance

First open RAN / vRAN installations expected to ramp up

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