5G RAN and Cloud Convergence
To address massive mobile data growth and new market opportunities, carriers are accelerating 5G deployment and evolving their Radio Access Networks (RAN) to open and virtualized architectures that offer greater flexibility and efficiency.
With its enhanced capabilities, performance and edge intelligence, 5G is unlocking myriad consumer and enterprise applications that promise to transform entire industries and serve the world's diverse connectivity needs for years to come.
Marvell expertise lies at the intersection of 5G and cloud, making us the ideal silicon partner to help drive this transformation. Widely deployed Marvell baseband, compute, security and networking solutions offer a unique combination of programmability, scalability and performance—enabling carriers to innovate sustainably, without compromise.
New Markets
New Markets
5G brings new capabilities for a new era of applications like VR, AR, and digital twin, as well as smart cities, self-driving cars, factory robotics, and industrial IoT (Internet of Things).
Marvell is working closely with its customers and partners to provide 5G connectivity, ensure 5G security, and enable intelligent connectivity to meet the demands of these new opportunities.
5G networks aren't just fast; they're reliably fast and support many users and device types while delivering the performance, security, and reliability required for mission-critical applications like industrial IoT and first responder communications. Imagine an entire world that is always connected.
New Classes of Service
New Classes of Service
5G offers new and enhanced classes of connectivity for Ultra-reliable Low Latency Communications (URLLC), Massive Machine Type Communications (mMTC), and Enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB) services.
- Network slicing. Instead of a network architecture in which devices share the same communication channels, carriers can partition physical network resources into virtual instance, offering application-optimized connectivity or tiered services with differing levels of bandwidth.
- Enterprise 5G. Enterprise customers seeking a dedicated 5G network are working with 5G RAN vendors and integrators to deploy 5G on private or shared radio frequencies, such as the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) band in the U.S.
Marvell, with its OCTEON Fusion® RAN portfolio, plays a pivotal role in pushing the boundaries of performance, features, and efficiency in 5G innovation.
Cloud Optimized and Scalable
Cloud Optimized and Scalable
The industry's new and enhanced classes of 5G connectivity build on decades of cellular evolution and are made more scalable and enterprise-friendly with the introduction of disaggregated and virtualized (software-defined) networks based on open standards, including O-RAN, and established cloud architecture.
The same Marvell 5G RAN platforms deployed globally in integrated 5G networks support these next-generation architectures, including vRAN and O-RAN. As 5G moves to the cloud, Marvell also brings leading Hardware Security Module (HSM) and electro-optical interconnect platforms that are widely deployed across hyperscale clouds.
Marvell RAN and data center platforms enable cloud scalability and efficiency with 5G features and performance that are on par with leading carrier networks worldwide.
Low Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
Low Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
Cloud-native 5G promises to bring a new level of flexibility and efficiency, but early vRAN and O-RAN systems built on general-purpose processors traded radio performance for network programmability.
To drive lower TCO and attractive returns on 5G investments, operators require a no-compromise approach with the throughput, latency, reliability and efficiency to support enhanced user experiences, new classes of service and exponential traffic growth at cloud scale.
Marvell 5G RAN and data center solutions span DFE, baseband, compute, security, switching and optical connectivity, from edge to core network, as well as inside and outside the data center, offering a comprehensive silicon portfolio for cloud-native 5G that is proven at scale.
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Edge Intelligence
Successful 5G evolution increasingly depends upon incorporating Al/ML technology into planning, deployment and operation of the network. Automation across the network will help scale 5G performance and efficiency in the face of exponential growth in traffic, devices and security threats.
This industry vision has given rise to the RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) in O-RAN Alliance standards. Al is being used to enhance radio channel modeling and massive MIMO beamforming at the edge to service orchestration and SLA assurance in the core. Al also plays a crucial role in improving early security threat detection, as the trend towards open and disaggregated multi-vendor networks is increasing the attack surface.
Marvell has incorporated in-line Al/ML hardware accelerators in its latest OCTEON multi-core processors, enabling optimized edge inferencing in the 5G RAN to help fuel our world with intelligent connectivity.
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