5G convergence calls for more virtualization and versatile hardware
As part of the expansion, the companies are collaborating on a range of new initiatives intended to drive further innovation for the world’s increasingly virtualized networks. The companies will collaborate to create an industry-first universal access device that can flexibly be used for any combination of wireline and wireless connections.
The collaboration will pair Freescale’s deep understanding of advanced networking silicon and software with Bell Labs’ unmatched systems knowledge to define and establish the converged solution. The envisioned result could be a highly configurable access technology that supports both wireline and 5G wireless processing in a single architecture.
Betting on both future technology nodes to bring more computational performance and new architectures, the two companies plan to unveil a proof of concept of their new universal remote node at the end of the research project in the first quarter of 2017.
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