Samsung Electronics' vRAN (Virtualized Radio Access Network) 3.0 software integrates the 4th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processor and Intel vRAN Boost, and is expected to meet the cost and quality requirements of network operators.

Intel and Samsung Electronics announced today that they are expanding their collaboration with new product innovations leveraging Intel's 4th Generation Xeon Scalable processors with Intel vRAN Boost.

The combination of Samsung's vRAN 3.0 and Intel's 4th Generation Xeon Scalable processors with Intel vRAN Boost provides telecommunications providers with a solution that meets their capacity, coverage, quality, and total cost of ownership requirements, while building networks based on a fully virtualized, modern architecture.

“The mobile industry is on a transformative journey toward end-to-end network virtualization,” said Cristina Rodriguez, vice president and general manager of Intel’s Wireless Access Networks business. “Intel and Samsung have long collaborated to deliver a highly integrated vRAN solution. “By further strengthening this collaboration, both companies will contribute to accelerating large-scale vRAN deployments for telecommunications operators and providing them with flexibility, performance, and power efficiency,” he said.

Samsung and Intel have been collaborating on vRAN (virtualized radio access network) innovation since 2017, and the performance of the integrated solution has already been proven in commercial networks of major carriers in the US, UK, and Japan.

As a leader in the vRAN market, Samsung has contributed to the early mass commercial adoption of 5G virtualized networks worldwide.

Samsung is the only major vendor to have completed large-scale commercial vRAN deployments with Tier 1 operators across multiple continents in the Americas, Europe, and Asia.