Telecom Infra Project (TIP) and Intel have announced their joint effort to produce a 5G massive MIMO (mMIMO) Open RAN Radio Unit (O-RU) whitebox to address the capacity and intelligence needs for future metaverse applications. Conceived as a 32-antenna element wideband standalone radio unit, the whitebox solution will support O-RAN interfaces and advanced software applications.
Intel will be responsible for distribution of the product, which leverages the company’s Agilex product portfolio and advanced beamforming, a technology that uses multiple antennas to control the direction of a wave-front by appropriately weighting the magnitude and phase of individual antenna signals in an array of multiple antennas.
