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Rapid.Space, Accton, Geeflex and MiTAC announce sub-800$ hardware platform for carrier-grade vRAN

Rapid.Space introduces at MWC 2024 ORS ONE, a hardware platform for carrier-grade vRAN with target entry price under 800$ for quantities over 1,000 units. The ORS ONE license kit includes a commercial license for ORS hardware design with permission to produce proprietary derivative designs without being bound by the copyleft licensing terms of the original ORS.
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PRESS RELEASE

Barcelona, Spain, February 26, 2024 - Rapid.Space introduces at MWC 2024 ORS ONE, a hardware platform for carrier-grade vRAN with target entry price under 800$ for quantities over 1,000 units, excluding firmware license. ORS ONE demonstrates that vRAN hardware cost can compete with ASIC-based platforms while offering unique advantages: continuous upgrade to latest 3GPP releases without changing hardware, support of both 4G and 5G at the same time, auditability of cybersecurity risks, resilient edge services, low power, sustainable supply chain, etc. The ORS ONE license kit is launched to support infrastructure vendors and carriers willing to design new products based on the ORS ONE platform. It is marketed at a fraction of the typical cost of SDKs of leading ASIC vendors. 

The ORS ONE platform includes a choice of CPUs: Rockchip (ARM), Intel (x86) and AMD (x86). It supports three levels of bandwidth (20 MHz, 40 Mhz and 100 Mhz), two levels of power (2 x 1W and 2 x 10W), 25 bands (B1 • B2 • B3 • B4 • B5 • B7 • B8 • B10 • B12 • B13 • B20 • B25 • B26 • B28 • B30 • B38 • B39 • B40 • B41 • B42 • B43 • B48 • B49 • N77 • N78 • N79), time synchronisation (GPS, IEEE 1588v2) and any number of layers or carriers. It can run eNodeB, gNodeB, epc, 5gc, ims and a wide range of edge services deployed as D-RAN, C-RAN or All-in-one (AIO) RAN architecture. A typical 2.4 kg ORS can act as a complete autonomous 5G network (RAN / core / edge) with up to 10 km line-of-sight range in band 28 using omnidirectional antenna and standard smartphone.

ORS products based on the ORS ONE platform are currently manufactured in Europe by Nexedi, in mainland China by Geeflex and in Taiwan by Accton. They rely on small board computers (SBC) manufactured by MITAC and other partners.

As a modular open source hardware platform, anyone can derive the original ORS design and manufacture new products with same or different features: higher power (2 x 40W), more layers (ex. 8 x 1W), hardware certification (ex. ATEX), custom edge services (ex. MCPTT), multiple frequencies (ex. B39 + N78), new CPU (ex. AMD V3000, NXP), etc. Geelflex will demonstrate derivatives of the original ORS with AMD CPU capable of supporting 500 active UEs and by Rockchip CPU for low-cost NR REDCAP deployment.

Infrastructure vendors and carriers willing to design new products are encouraged to acquire the ORS ONE license kit. They will receive a sample ORS with a choice of CPU (Rockchip, AMD, Intel) and an Amarisoft NW200 license. Rapid.Space and partners will provide support for software and hardware integration. The ORS ONE license kit includes a commercial license for ORS hardware design with permission to produce proprietary derivative designs without being bound by the copyleft licensing terms of the original ORS. The ORS ONE license kit is marketed at 50,000€ including one ORS device, Amarisoft license, hardware design commercial license and one-year technical support.

Enterprise customers willing to try the ORS ONE platform are encouraged to order online a standard ORS (888€ + 88€ / month). Developers and researchers willing to try the ORS ONE platform are encouraged to order the ORS SDK (starting at 11,450€). Both are available on https://shop.rapid.space.

About Rapid.Space

Rapid.Space is a resilient 5G edge cloud operator whose international, Fully Open infrastructure is based on principles of openness, transparency, portability and reversibility: open source software, open hardware and open operating procedures. As a co-founder of the SimpleRAN initiative, a member of the Open Compute Project, Euclidia and EANGTI, Rapid.Space strives to be at the forefront of the development of an edge computing infrastructure capable of meeting the challenges of the splinternet, protection of trade secret and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.

Contact

Jean-Paul Smets - PDG
Tel: +33 (0)6 29 02 44 25
Mail: jp (at) rapid.space

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https://blog.rapid.space/rapidspace-Press.Release.MWC24.ONE

Technical references and media materials

https://blog.rapid.space/rapidspace-MWC2024