Picocom, a provider of baseband chips and carrier-grade software for 5G small base stations, and Accton Technology (Accton, TWSE: 2345), a global provider of network communication solutions, recently jointly announced that the two parties will join hands in 5G ecological markets such as Open RAN. Cooperate to launch new product solutions, including the 5G Open RAN radio frequency unit (O-RU) developed by Accton using Bikochi PC802 physical layer system-on-chip (PHY SoC) and software, and the baseband processing based on Bikochi ORANIC The distributed unit (O-DU) developed by the accelerator card.
Liu Mingshou, general manager of Accton Continental Technology, said, "As a leader in innovative network technology, Accton has insisted on cooperating with top technology providers for many years. Bikeqi is a leading manufacturer of baseband chips in 5G ecosystems such as Open RAN. Qi is closely cooperating in technology, and is also optimistic about the prospect of joint efforts between the two parties to promote the development of 5G new technologies such as Open RAN. Through the system design and integration capabilities accumulated by Accton for many years, and the division of labor and cooperation with Pico Qi's excellent team and excellent technology, it will accelerate The commercialization of Open RAN and other markets will provide more customers with high-quality innovative technology products and services."
Luo Wen, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development of Bikeqi Microelectronics (Hangzhou) Co., Ltd. said: "It is a great honor to cooperate with a world-renowned original design manufacturer (ODM) such as Accton Technology to bring our award-winning ORANIC baseband The processing accelerator card (PHY/NIC) is introduced to the market. Accton will not only help Bikochi achieve its goal of becoming the industry's first choice full-featured product for its ORANIC accelerator card, but we also expect that the PC802 baseband chip and 5G NR radio frequency unit software will become Accton's future The core of the wireless radio frequency products developed."
The 5G baseband chip PC802 developed by Piccolo has been mass-produced and provided with mature L1 software to support the design of various 5G/4G small base stations, including Open RAN distributed units (O-DU) and wireless Radio Frequency Unit (O-RU) applications. In addition, PC802 also supports both 4G LTE and 5G NR network modes, as well as full-speed TDD and FDD network standards.
The ORANIC plug-in card based on PC802 is an accelerator card specially designed for 5G DU servers such as Open RAN, and has won the Gold Award of the Global Small Cell Forum (SCF). The ORANIC accelerator card includes 4 PC802 chips, which are linked with the L2 software through the SCF FAPI interface, and built-in 4 25Gbps SFPs optical fiber interfaces that conform to the O-RAN Open Fronthaul interface, which can drive up to 16 2T2R or 8 x 4T4R O-RU RF Antennas.
