The Dell Private Wireless with Airspan and Druid solution provides private 5G with shared-spectrum Citizens Broadband Radio System (CBRS) in addition to licensed spectrum depending on how the platform is configured. This solution (hereinafter referred to as "Private Wireless") enables an enterprise to service its own 5G services, or a service provider to offer business-to-business (B2B) private connectivity and managed services. Features include:
- Private Wireless has been validated on Dell's VxRail VMware appliance, Dell's Azure HCI platform, as well as running on generic VMware ESXi/vSphere on Dell's new, modular PowerEdge XR4000 edge server.
- Druid 5GC is supported.
- Airspan Radios, RAN stack, Entity Management System (EMS), and Airspan Control Platform (ACP) are supported.
- Airspan 5G New Radios (NR) validated in the release are the AirVelocity 2700 (AV2700) RU (CU and DU components being deployed to additional hardware) and the new AirVelocity 1901 (AV1901) all-in-one (AIO) gNB. Both support licensed spectrum and CBRS (N48).
- The Airspan AV2700 is a truly disaggregated system that leverages the 7.2 split-Airspan O-RAN compliant virtualized Central Unit (vCU)/virtualized Distributed Unit (vDU). It is validated on Dell PowerEdge servers.
- RAN components are managed by the ACP EMS. ACP also acts as Domain Proxy (DP) for CBRS, which is fully compatible with all SAS vendors, helping to reduce the overall OPEX.
- An optional full SD-WAN is provided by the Versa Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) Virtual Network Function (VNF). SD-WAN is validated on Dell VEP edge node and hosted as a VM on existing infrastructure.