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The following graphs compare Legacy BBU Systems with Disaggregated RAN COTS Platforms:
Disaggregated Xeon Gen 4 RAN Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) Platforms (Dell PowerEdge XR8K) are approaching the power efficiency of Legacy BBUs.
- Additional, possible optimization:
RAN market type | Number of free cores |
Rural | 16 |
Sub-Urban | 13 |
Urban | 13 |
From a TCO perspective, the HW cost of the Servers could vary based on the HW configuration required by the Network for Cell-Sites.