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Cloud-Native OpenRAN Software Delivers 5G Scalability

June 21, 2021

Accelleran's containerized, cloud-native software components deliver openness and intelligence to Radio Access Networks, providing an IT OpDevs-centric approach to OpenRAN deployments.

David Maliniak

Related To: Microwaves & RF

Staying true to its mission of delivering embedded, edge, or cloud-based radio-access-network (RAN) software, Accelleran has released its 5G Standalone dRAX cloud-native OpenRAN software components. Comprising reliable, cost-effective, and exceptionally scalable implementations for both 4G and 5G networks, dRAX performs the key control and resource management functions of the RAN, including service orchestration, RIC (RAN intelligent controller), CU-CP (centralized unit control plane), and CU-UP (centralized unit user plane). Built with cloud-native and microservice-based software components, dRAX enables real-world deployment of multi-vendor, disaggregated OpenRAN, aligned with open standards such as the O-RAN Alliance.

Fully integrated with popular orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes, dRAX supports cost-effective deployments by leveraging standard IT DevOps and CI/CD (continuous integration/continuous deployment) practices. Along with this ease of implementation, the dRAX RIC offers a production-ready OpenRAN development platform, enabling real-time RAN data to be leveraged to create AI-based xApps and enhanced RAN intelligence and automation.

“The economics of 5G are not easily achieved with existing 3G/4G technology,” said Accelleran’s CEO, Frédéric Van Durme. “The only viable way is to disaggregate the access network and to decouple the hardware and software.”

dRAX’s scalability supports everything from small-scale office deployments to large-scale solutions with multi-node clustering, load balancing, geo-redundancy, and edge services, benefitting mobile network operators, neutral host operators and system integrators alike. Developers can either integrate dRAX software components into their own solutions or leverage Accelleran's capability to deliver turnkey OpenRAN networks.

“Accelleran’s approach with dRAX is unique in the marketplace, unleashing the full potential of OpenRAN by addressing several key requirements for organizations deploying private networks in different verticals,” says Van Durme. “Our customers can build dRAX into their solutions or they can benefit from our expertise in pre-integrating dRAX with a range of DU, RU, and core solutions from our partners within the OpenRAN ecosystem.”

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David Maliniak | Executive Editor, Microwaves & RF

I am Executive Editor of Microwaves & RF, an all-digital publication that broadly covers all aspects of wireless communications. More particularly, we're keeping a close eye on technologies in the consumer-oriented 5G, 6G, IoT, M2M, and V2X markets, in which much of the wireless market's growth will occur in this decade and beyond. I work with a great team of editors to provide engineers, developers, and technical managers with interesting and useful articles and videos on a regular basis. Check out our free newsletters to see the latest content.

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In his long career in the B2B electronics-industry media, David Maliniak has held editorial roles as both generalist and specialist. As Components Editor and, later, as Editor in Chief of EE Product News, David gained breadth of experience in covering the industry at large. In serving as EDA/Test and Measurement Technology Editor at Electronic Design, he developed deep insight into those complex areas of technology. Most recently, David worked in technical marketing communications at Teledyne LeCroy, leaving to rejoin the EOEM B2B publishing world in January 2020. David earned a B.A. in journalism at New York University.