Marvell OCTEON DPU Family Joins Evenstar Program to Supply OpenRAN Distributed Unit Designs
Recently Launched O-RAN Platform Helps Evenstar Expand the OpenRAN Ecosystem
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SANTA CLARA, Calif
. , March 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Marvell (NASDAQ: MRVL) today announced that it will join the Evenstar program and work with Facebook Connectivity to provide a 4G/5G OpenRAN Distributed Unit (DU) design for Evenstar, based on the industry-leading OCTEON Fusion
® baseband processors and Arm-based OCTEON
® multi-core digital processing units (DPUs). The Evenstar DU design will enable a new generation of RAN suppliers to deliver high performance, cost-optimized, interoperable DU products to the rapidly expanding OpenRAN ecosystem.
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Baicells Joins Partners to Develop Evenstar Remote Radio Units
January 19, 2021 GMT
PLANO, Texas, Jan. 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Baicells, a leading equipment manufacturer of 4G LTE and 5G NR E2E Solutions, today announced it will join Facebook Connectivity and other global partners in the Evenstar program to develop Remote Radio Units (RRU) and improve the adoption of OpenRAN technology.
The Evenstar program is a collaborative effort by global telecom partners to accelerate the adoption of OpenRAN technologies by focusing on building general-purpose RAN reference designs for 4G and 5G networks that are aligned with 3GPP and O-RAN specifications. In the development of the RRU, the baseband is split from the radio unit, increasing adoption opportunities by improving mobile network operator (MNO)’s abilities to choose best-in-class technology from a large selection of partners.