Dell Private Wireless offers choice when putting solution components together.
For instance, driven by one customer's needs, it may be desirable to deploy Private Wireless with a near-edge VxRail cluster for hosting ACP and other workloads. Each edge site could consist of a single VxRail server hosting the 5G core (5GC)—selecting the AV1901 as a complete RAN solution—negating the need for the CU and DU to be deployed on different nodes.
Conversely, another customer may have no requirement for a regional, near-edge cluster but has large edge sites requiring many RUs for the appropriate coverage. In this case, a more appropriate solution implementation may be to deploy a small hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) cluster for hosting the packet core, and implementing a fully disaggregated RAN using AV2700 RUs and disaggregated CUs and DUs. When a site has a large area to cover, implementing a 7.2 split option becomes more economical—as the number of RUs are high with each DU supporting many RUs. Also, a single CU can support many DUs. If instead you use the AV1901 AIO gNB to avoid the complexity of managing a 7.2 split, the number of AV1901s required to cover the required square footage might become cost prohibitive quickly.