Intel announced today the expansion of its lineup of hardware, software and solutions to better keep pace with the trend of virtualized Radio Access Networks (vRAN). Intel has identified that network infrastructure represents a $25 billion silicon opportunity by 2023.
“The radio access network is the next network transformation,” Intel’s Vice President in the Data Center Group and General Manager of the Wireless Access Network Division Cristina Rodriguez told RCR Wireless News. “The RAN is gaining importance especially from an innovation point of view.”
This, Rodriguez goes on to say ,is due to a confluence of emerging, and in some cases, mature, technologies like 5G, edge computing and artificial Iintelligence.
