Germany Nxp Embraces Tender

NXP Semiconductors N.V. announced it has joined the O-RAN Alliance an organization that promotes radio access networks built on virtualized network elements white-box hardware and standardized interfaces. The alliances emphasis on network intelligence openness interoperability autonomy and a RAN-based ecosystem meshes with NXPs 5G product roadmap strategic partnerships and vision. By joining the alliance NXP embraces the opportunity to significantly expand the 5G infrastructure choices available to mobile network operators globally.NXP is aligning with the O-RAN Alliances vision of open interfaces. Openess enables broad-based innovation in the wireless networking industry helps to build a competitive ecosystem to meet the growing demand for mobile data and creates the right environment to tap the new revenue streams presented by innovative high-bandwidth services.NXP brings the O-RAN Alliance wireless networking expertise developed over 30 years of industry leadership said Noy Kucuk vice president product management Digital Networking NXP. Our Layerscape family of high-performance Arm-based communications processing platforms offer an excellent fit for high-performance software-defined networking requirements of 5G.The advent of 5G will drive massive changes in the way data is processed and transported across the infrastructure said Mohamed Awad vice president of Marketing Infrastructure Line of Business Arm. The work of the O-RAN Alliance will help fuel innovation built upon solutions like NXPs Arm-based Layerscape platforms.NXP and ASTRI Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited are collaborating to create an end-to-end 5G RAN demo utilizing LX2160 communications processors. ASTRIs proven expertise in communication systems wireless technologies baseband algorithms reference designs and embedded L1L2L3 system integration makes them a natural collaborator with NXP for this demonstration platform.An already thriving ecosystem of innovative new products will form the underpinnings of the multi-vendor interoperable autonomous radio access network said Dr. Justin Chuang vice president Next Generation Network ASTRI. Envisioned by many in the past it is now a reality enabled by the global industry-wide vision open communities as well as the leadership of O-RAN Alliance. ASTRI is pleased to continue its long standing collaboration with NXP to help advance the ecosystem. ASTRI will be demonstrating the NXP-based CUDU development platform at MWC 2019 Hall 5 Stand 5G70.