Edgecore Networks Introduces Open Networking for Cell Sites and 5G
Amsterdam,
October 1, 2018 – OCP
Regional Summit –
Edgecore Networks, the leader in open networking, today announced the
availability of its AS7316-26XB gateway, the industry's first open
disaggregated cell site gateway, that will enable service providers
to deploy 4G and 5G wireless services with the economies of
disaggregated open network technology. The cell site gateway is
a completely open hardware design with Edgecore having contributed
its design to the Open Compute Project (OCP) in conformance to the
"Cell Site Gateway Router" specification which AT&T has
contributed to the OCP Telco Project.
“Edgecore
has been expanding our leadership work in OCP networking from the
data center to service provider networks with previous design
contributions of leaf/spine switches and disaggregated OLTs for
broadband access infrastructures, in addition to our work in the TIP
and ONF communities on reference designs for access and optical
networking use cases,” said George Tchaparian, CEO, Edgecore
Networks. “The introduction of the fully open Edgecore
AS7316-26XB cell site gateway will extend open networking into cell
site deployments, lowering cost and enabling increased software
control from open platforms, to meet the increasing bandwidth and
service demands that providers face in their mobile networks today
and in their upcoming 5G rollouts.”
The
AS7316-26XB gateway is designed for outside plant and cell site
deployment, supporting 4G and 5G base stations with full IEEE 1588
timing and GPS functions, and providing backhaul uplinks at 25GbE or
100GbE. As with all Edgecore open network switches, the cell site
gateway will provide network operators with open source software
options including ONIE, Open Network Linux, the Open Optical
Monitoring (OOM) API, the Redfish hardware management API, and SONiC.
The Edgecore cell site gateway will be compatible with commercial NOS
and SDN software options, including from IP Infusion and
Metaswitch.
Features
and Availability
Edgecore
has contributed to OCP the detailed specification and design package
for the AS7316-26XB gateway, which provides 2 x 100GbE QSFP28 ports,
8 x 25GbE SFP28 ports, and 16 x 10GbE/1GbE SFP+ ports in a 1U
enclosure designed for deployment in outside plant cabinets and
meeting NEBS 3 requirements. The AS7316-26XB gateway incorporates the
Broadcom® StrataDNXTM Qumran-AX
switch silicon, deep packet buffer memory, and an
Intel® Xeon® Processor
D control plane processor.
The AS7316-26XB cell site
gateway router is available now. Edgecore will be exhibiting
the AS7316-26XB gateway, in addition to other open network products
for data center and service provider networks, at the OCP Regional
Summit in Amsterdam on Oct 1-2, the SDN NFV World Congress in The
Hague on Oct 9-11, the TIP Summit in London on Oct 16-17, and the
Broadband World Forum in Berlin on Oct 23-25.
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