Developer Kits with 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Processors
Prevalidated Software
Get the most out of your hardware performance with the FlexRAN™ Reference Architecture, Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK*), Ubuntu* 22.04 LTS, and libraries.
Software-Defined Network and Edge
Increased flexibility, scalability, and cost efficiency to provide dynamically allocated resources and optimize network performance based on traffic demands.
Intel® Network Engines
Built-in accelerators drive network expansion and more efficient signal processing for virtual Radio Access Network (vRAN) workloads.
Overview
Deliver solutions with flexibility, scalability, and control, which are critical for communications service providers (CSP), using developer kits based on the 4th generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor with Intel® vRAN Boost.
- Enables full end-to-end virtualization and cloud-native architecture using an open platform, helping industries to scale and innovate rapidly.
- Delivers greater performance per watt, power efficiency, and reduced system components with the integrated vRAN acceleration.
- Supports high capacity and low latency for vRAN deployments, speeding up application response times.
- Creates opportunity for operators to quickly innovate, adapt to insights, and manage high-bandwidth demands for various applications, such as automated driving, healthcare, smart city, and manufacturing.
Who Needs This Product
System integrators, independent software vendors (ISVs), and CSPs who need to develop solutions for vRAN and private 5G networks.
- Optimized for high throughput and low latency, with built-in acceleration for packet and signal processing, load balancing, and AI.
- Provides higher memory bandwidth with I/O capacity to meet the highest capacity requirements for next-generation vRAN deployments.
- Maintain top performance while helping preserve data confidentiality and code integrity with Intel® Security Engines.
- Increase network capacity to handle more traffic and deliver fast 5G experiences with accelerated encryption, optimizations for vRAN, and more with Intel® Network Engines.
To determine the features and capabilities implemented by Intel's ecosystem collaborators, see Hardware.
Reference Implementations
Prebuilt and validated reference implementations are available for developers to test and deploy industrial, retail, and healthcare applications enabled for vRAN applications.
Your experience may vary depending on the configuration of your developer kit. For details, see the target system requirements in the reference implementation.
Hardware
Prevalidated developer kits
QCTEGX74I-1U vRAN Developer Kit
- 4th gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors with Intel vRAN Boost
- Prevalidated with the SDK for FlexRAN Reference Architecture to enable high performance and low latency for vRAN deployment
- Provides three PCIe* expansion slots for more customization and network interface controller (NIC) expansion
- Power efficiency of commercial off-the-self ultra slim server (smart fan control, power redundancy)
Software
Prevalidated | Ubuntu* 22.04 LTS
Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK*)
- Learn how the Packet Capture Framework captures data packets on its ports. Set up traffic monitoring on DPDK-controlled devices.
- The API includes hierarchical scheduling, traffic shaping, congestion management, and packet marking.
- Take advantage of libraries to accelerate packet processing workloads.
Prevalidated | Ubuntu* 22.04 LTS
FlexRAN™ Reference Architecture
This software and hardware reference architecture enables the software RAN ecosystem to build and deploy highly optimized, feature rich, 4G and 5G scalable cloud native vRAN implementations on Intel architecture.