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Dell delivers a new XR8000 server for telecoms
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The vendor is working with NTT DoCoMo on OREX Open RAN
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Plus it's delivered infrastructure blocks for vRAN, OSS and core workloads
2023 has been a busy year for the telecoms business at Dell. So we checked in with Manish Singh, CTO of the telecoms systems business at Dell to get an update on the latest and what we can expect for 2024.
The CTO was keen to talk about the new Dell XR8000 server. “It’s a two-unit chassis in which there are four sleds,” he said. “It lends itself very well for Open RAN...and for even edge workloads.”
Singh explained that the XR8000 brings modularity and flexibility to such workloads, and because it's a sled-based design that can help “future-proof” the network, such as by adding backhaul compute power to upgrade the network.
Singh notes that “what I would call tier 1 service providers” in the U.S., Canada, Europe and Japan are “already working on XR800” really at the trial stage now, but looking towards commercial deployment. “We should have more news next year,” Singh hinted.
The vendor is already working with NTT DoCoMo on its Open RAN-based OREX service brand using the Dell Open Telecom Ecosystem Labs (OTEL).
“They bring a lot of expertise and experience from a network level and we bring a lot of expertise from an infrastructure level,” Singh said of the OREX plug-fest.
“We just have refreshed our infrastructure blocks” with Wind River and Red Hat as well, he noted.
The Wind River block is already deployed for virtualized RAN workloads, while the Red Hat is aimed at OSS and BSS workloads as well as the core.
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