Qualcomm Technologies and NEC last week announced that they are jointly developing a 5G open and virtualized distributed unit (DU). Powered by the Qualcomm X100 5G RAN Accelerator Card, the DU, said the pair, will “drive the transition towards modern networks” by simplifying deployments and lowering the total cost of ownership (TCO) by delivering high-performance, open radio access network (O-RAN)-compliant, energy-efficient, virtualized, cloud-native 5G solutions.
