As service providers increasingly take an IT-centric approach to building and managing increasingly complex networks, there’s a move toward swapping out single-purpose hardware for more flexible infrastructure that uses software to virtually spin-up network functions and services. This reduces capex and allows for more dynamic service creation and delivery, which will be key to scaling out 5G.
To this end, Ericsson has partnered with Intel to co-develop what the network gear vendor dubs “software-defined infrastructure” using Intel’s Rack Scale Design, which the company describes as “an industry-wide architecture for disaggregated, composable infrastructure.”
