The collaboration is part of Airtel's 5G roadmap for the countryThe nation's leading telecoms service provider Bharti Airtel revealed on Wednesday, July 21, that it is teaming up with American multinational tech business Intel to accelerate the rollout of the 5G network in India by leveraging the virtualized radio gain access to network (vRAN) as well as O-RAN (open radio gain access to network) technologies.
The partnership between the two prominent firms is most likely to offer a major 5G network rollout boost in the country.
(Also Check Out: Bharti Airtel, TCS To Jointly Develop 5G Networks In India )The collaborations by Intel and Airtel will evolve the communications network from fixed-function devices to the virtualized cloud-native deployments.
This will make it possible for edge-to-cloud communications to power a hyperconnected world where market 4.0, cloud gaming and virtual or increased truth end up being a daily experience for customers.
The cooperation belongs to Airtel's 5G roadmap for the country, according to a declaration shared by the telecom operator.
(Also Read: NXP, Jio Platforms Collaborate For Expanded 5G Use Cases In India )Intel-Airtel Partnership: How will it work? Airtel will release Intel's latest third-generation Xeon scalable processors, FPGAs and eASICs, and ethernet 800 series throughout its network to develop a foundation for rolling out a wide-scale 5G network, mobile edge computing, as well as network slicing, according to its statement.By supplying the foundation for a massive improved mobile broadband with mobile edge computing, Airtel can use brand-new services for customers while setting its network to yield long-term cost optimizations, said Intel in its declaration today.
As members of the O-RAN alliance, both market leaders will work together to develop a range of native 5G solutions for India, to allow first-rate telecom infrastructure through regional partners.The O-RAN platforms will take advantage of Intel FlexRAN - a reference architecture with both software application and hardware components, and offer software-based radio base stations that can run on the general-purpose servers located at the network edge, according to Airtel.