Telecom equipment giant Ericsson and Telstra are collaborating to deploy high-density microprocessors from AMD for use in Ericsson’s bare metal cloud environment, also known as Cloud Native Infrastructure Solution (CNIS), to improve energy efficiency for Telstra’s 5G core functions.
The fourth generation AMD Genoa processors will be used on a closed loop liquid-cooled server system to significantly reduce the overall cooling requirements for 5G core systems compared to traditional air cooling, the companies said.
Telstra and Ericsson used the new combination harder to host workloads for Ericsson’s Packet Core Gateway and Packet Core Controller applications — two elements of the company’s dual-mode 5G core solution. The deployment showed infrastructure improvements on Ericsson’s CNIS platform, Packet Core Gateway and Packet Core Controller solutions up to 49% less energy consumption.
Additionally, the two companies are working toward improving energy efficiency on Telstra’s existing infrastructure footprint through different power management features and solutions in the radio access network.
“Our latest deployment of Ericsson 5G Core functions using next-generation AMD processors on liquid-cooled infrastructure has the potential to deliver a step-change in performance and efficiency — one that will benefit individuals and businesses throughout Australia,” said Shailin Sehgal, executive network applications and cloud at Telstra. “Perhaps most importantly, this new milestone provides us with tangible progress towards contributing to achieving our T25 climate goals.”
