NXP Semiconductors and Jio Platforms (JPL), a subsidiary of Reliance, have announced a collaboration to implement a 5G NR O-RAN small cell solution that incorporates NXP's Layerscape family of multicore processors.
The combined solution will power new RAN networks that will deliver high performance, enabling a wide range of 5G use cases for broadband access as well as Industry 4.0 and IoT applications, including tele-medicine, tele-education, augmented/virtual reality, drone-based agricultural monitoring and more.
Jio Platforms is a technology company that delivers 4G and 5G solutions and is the holding company of Jio, the largest mobile network operator in India and the third largest mobile network operator in the world. The company leverages technology solutions to serve its vast customer base and is moving rapidly to address 5G opportunities in India.
JPL has leveraged NXP's Layerscape processors in its new 5G NR solutions. The combination enables an offering that has successfully tested at 100MHz channel bandwidth in 3.5GHz spectrum with peak data rates of 1 Gbps+, according to NXP.
This translates to increased performance for a wide range of segments, enabling applications in smart cities, smart homes, health and education. As a result, JPL's 5G NR radio solutions are well suited for next generation RAN networks, providing increased indoor and outdoor performance and enabling a wide range of 5G use cases, said NXP.
The Layerscape family of multicore processors provides high levels of integration and deliver strong performance leveraging the combination of Arm 64-bit cores, networking and security offload engines with wide high-speed SerDes interfaces for highly integrated system implementation, NXP.
Hardware networking offload include switching, timing, parsing and Quality of Service (QoS), providing offload for eCPRI C/U- and S-Plane offload including virtualized and containerized L1/L2 applications. The overall system delivers efficient, scalable performance via software programmable implementation, aid NXP.
