Intel vRAN Accelerator ACC100 Adapter, Cost-effective, low-power FEC Acceleration for high-capacity 4G and 5G vRAN deployment

As communications service providers move from 4G to 5G networks, many are adopting virtualized radio access network (vRAN) architectures for higher channel capacity and easier deployment of edge-based services and applications. vRAN solutions are ideally located to deliver low-latency services with the flexibility to increase or decrease capacity based on the volume of real-time traffic and demand on the network. 4G and 5G Forward Error Correction (FEC) Acceleration One of the most compute-intensive 4G and 5G workloads is RAN layer 1 (L1) FEC, which resolves data transmission errors over unreliable or noisy communication channels. FEC technology detects and corrects a limited number of errors in 4G or 5G data, eliminating the need for retransmission. Since the FEC acceleration transaction does not contain cell state information, it can be easily virtualized, enabling pooling benefits and easy cell migration. Increased vRAN Cell Density and Efficiency The Intel vRAN Accelerator ACC100 Adapter enables balanced platform performance by rapidly performing Layer 1 FEC algorithms, making more host processing power available for increased channel capacity on edge-based services and applications. This fixed-function PCIe 3.0 adapter works with Intel Xeon Scalable processors and Intel Xeon D processors to enable low-cost, power-efficient 4G and 5G vRAN solutions.Simplified Integration Ecosystem readiness and support for multiple deployment environments simplifies integration and validation of the Intel vRAN Accelerator ACC100 Adapter:; Supports the FlexRAN software reference architecture to enable users to quickly evaluate and build platforms for the wide range of vRAN networks; Uses the O-RAN-adopted DPDK BBDev API - an API that Intel contributed to the open source community to enable choice and faster time-to-market for FEC acceleration solutions; Supports VM, Bare Metal and cloud-native environments