Samsung Electronics today announced the company has successfully completed the industry's first end-to-end call in a lab environment with a future Intel Xeon processor (codenamed Granite Rapids-D), on a virtualized Open RAN network powered by Samsung's vRAN 3.0. This achievement between Samsung and Intel is another milestone in the companies' multi-year collaboration and represents the companies' mutual dedication to advance virtualized Open RAN for enhanced performance and capacity.

Conducted in Samsung's R&D lab in Korea, the companies completed the end-to-end data call using Samsung's versatile and O-RAN-compliant virtualized RAN (vRAN) integrated with Intel's Granite Rapids-D, Samsung's Core and test devices. During the test, Samsung achieved significant gains as well as reduced power consumption. The test results will be demonstrated at Mobile World Congress 2024 (Samsung Networks booth, invitation-only).
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