Saving Power in the 5G Core

Intel® Infrastructure Power Manager for 5G Core (5GC) reference software allows CoSPs to take advantage of the telemetry features offered in the Intel® Xeon® processor family. The software matches runtime server power consumption with data traffic in the 5GC network in real time and takes advantage of built-in capabilities, such as sleep states and Intel® Speed Select Technology (Intel® SST), that improve performance per watt up to 93 percent.2 Many of these power management hooks are available today with Intel® Xeon® “N” SKUs, with additional optimizations and workload-level power instructions coming in future generations.