FlexRAN™ Reference Architecture for Wireless Access

FlexRAN Reference Architecture

Use this reference architecture with the Open RAN ecosystem to build and deploy highly optimized, feature rich, 4G and 5G scalable cloud-native RAN solutions on Intel® architecture.

 

Resources

To request access, contact your Intel account manager.

FlexRAN Software Compliance with 3GPP

 

Hardware Documentation

Intel® Xeon® CPUs
Intel® Forward Error Correction Device (Intel® FEC Device)
Network Interface Card

Intel® Product Compatibility Tool

Use this tool to find small form-factor pluggable (SFP+) devices that are compatible with the Intel® Ethernet Network Adapter.

 
 
Adopt SYCL* and DPC++

See why developers are embracing SYCL* for heterogenous computing, specifically using LLVM support of SYCL in the oneAPI DPC++ Compiler project.

Supporting Tools

Intel® oneAPI Base & IoT Toolkit

Get what you need to build, analyze, and optimize data-centric IoT applications and solutions that run at the network’s edge.

Intel® VTune™ Profiler User Guide

Understand workflows and tuning methodologies to profile serial and multithreaded applications with Intel® VTune™ Profiler for running on a variety of hardware platforms.

Partner Commercial Solutions

Hardware Platforms (OEMs & ODMs)

 

Server OEMs

Hardware platforms optimized for virtualized RAN implementations are available.

  • Advantech*
  • Dell*
  • HP*
  • Kontron*
  • Lenovo*
  • MiTAC*
  • Quanta*
  • Super Micro*

Radio Unit Partner

  • Foxconn*
Software & Platform

 

5G RAN Stack (L2, L3, and Control Unit) 

  • Altiostar*
  • Capgemini*
  • Mavenir*
  • Parallel Wireless*
  • Radisys*

Cloud Platform Software

Intel has partnered with all key operating system vendors (OSVs) who are developing virtualization platforms for cloud RAN applications.

View Intel Select Solutions for vRAN