Products for Silicom Local 5G

Product Summary

Silicom deploys various DU/CU servers, server adapter cards for 5G/Local5G. This page provides an overview of these products and examples of the elements required to configure 5G/Local 5G.

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The red wavy line in the figure above shows the range of Silicom support for general Local 5G configurations. Silicom offers DU/CU servers and server adapter cards. The components of Local 5G vary depending on the application. It is necessary to select according to the use case, such as the network bandwidth, the number of RUs that can be accommodated, and the need for acceleration cards.

Local 5G configuration example

Configuration example (1): When using an acceleration card

■ Components

・DU server: Vigo

・CU server: Palma

・Acceleration + Time Sync Card: Oakham

・LDPC Offload IP: Intel or AccelerComm IP

・Encryption/compression offload card: QAT

-> RU capacity: 12 (depends on configuration)

Configuration example 2: When not using an acceleration card

■ Components

・DU: Vigo

・CU: Palma

・Time Sync Card: STS1

・LDPC off-road card: Pomona Lake

・Encryption/compression offload card: QAT

-> RU capacity: 4 (depends on configuration)

server adapter card

acceleration card

Oxford

・Intel® Arria® 10 GT FPGA based

・10G/25G x4 ports for high-speed Ethernet (2x QSFP28)

・PCIe Gen3 x16 lanes

・9GB of DDR4 memory

・Full height, half length

Oakham

・Intel® Arria® 10 GT FPGA based

・10G/25G x4 ports for High Speed Ethernet (2x QSFP28)

・PCIe Gen3 x16 lanes

・9GB of DDR4 memory

・Full height, half length

・GNSS compatible

・SyncE / 1588 compliant

N5010 series

・Intel® Stratix® 10 DX FPGA base

・100G x4 ports for High Speed Ethernet (4x QSFP28)

・PCIe Gen4 x16 lanes

32GB + ECC DDR4 memory

・8GB of HBM

・Full height, ¾ length, dual slot

N5110A series

・Intel® Stratix® 10 MX FPGA, Intel Atom® processor P5900 base

・100G x2 ports for High Speed Ethernet (2x QSFP28)

・PCIe Gen3 x16 lanes

32GB + ECC DDR4 memory

・16GB HBM

・Full height, full length

C5010 series

・Intel® Stratix® 10 DX FPGA, Intel® Xeon® D processor 16xx base

・25G x2 ports for High Speed Ethernet (2x SFP28)

・PCIe Gen4 x8 lanes

16GB + ECC DDR4 memory (Stratix 10 DX)

・16GB + ECC DDR4 memory (Xeon D)

・Half height, half length

time sync card

STS1

・Intel® Ethernet Controller E810-CAM1 based

・25G/10G x4 ports for High Speed Ethernet (4x SFP28)

・PCIe Gen4 x16 lanes

・Half height, half length

・GNSS not supported

・SyncE/1588 compliant

STS2

・Intel® Ethernet Controller E810-CAM2 based

・10G/1G x8 ports for High Speed Ethernet (1x QSFP or 4x SFP+)

・PCIe Gen4 x8 lanes

・Full height, half length

・GNSS compatible

・SyncE/1588 compliant

STS3

・Intel® Ethernet Controller E810-CAM1 x2 based

25G/10G x8 ports for High Speed Ethernet (2x QSFP28)

・PCIe Gen4 x16 lanes

・Full height, half length

・GNSS compatible

・SyncE/1588 compliant

STS4

・Based on Intel® Ethernet Controller E810-CAM1 + Intel® Ethernet Controller E810-CAM2

・Supports 25G x4 ports and 10G x8 ports for High Speed Ethernet (1x QSFP+ or 4x SFP+ or 1x QSFP28)

・PCIe Gen4 x16 lanes

・Full height, half length, dual slot

・GNSS compatible

・SyncE/1588 compliant

Oakham

・Intel® Arria® 10 GT FPGA based

・10G/25G x4 ports for High Speed Ethernet (2x QSFP28)

・PCIe Gen3 x16 lanes

・4GB of DDR4 memory

・Full height, half length

・GNSS compatible

・SyncE / 1588 compliant

Standard NIC card

P4CG2I81 series

・Intel® Ethernet Controller E810-CAM2 based

・100G x2 ports for High Speed Ethernet (2x QSFP28)

・PCIe Gen 4 x16 lanes

・Half height, half length

P425G4I81 series

・Intel® Ethernet Controller E810-CAM1 based

25G x4 ports for High Speed Ethernet (4x SFP28)

・PCIe Gen 4 x16 lanes

・Half height, half length

O34CG2i81 series

・Intel® Ethernet Controller E810-CAM2 based

・100G x2 ports for High Speed Ethernet (2x QSFP28)

・PCIe Gen 4 x16 lanes

・OCP 3.0

P425G4I81 series

・Intel® Ethernet Controller E810-CAM1 based

25G x4 ports for High Speed Ethernet (4x SFP28)

・PCIe Gen 4 x16 lanes

・OCP 3.0

PE325G2I71 series

・Intel® Ethernet Network Adapter XXV710 based

25G x2 ports for High Speed Ethernet (2x QSFP28)

・PCIe Gen 3 x8 lanes

・Half height, half length

PE325G4I71L series

・Intel® Ethernet Network Adapter XXV710 based

25G x4 ports for High Speed Ethernet (4x SFP28)

・PCIe Gen 3 x8 lanes

・Half height, half length

Other cards

Pomona Lake

・Intel® eASIC™ N3XS based

・Turbo (4G), LDPC (5G) FEC off-road

・Lookaside accelerator

・PCIe Gen 3 x16 lanes

・Half height, half length

QAT

・Intel® C62x chipset base

・Encryption, compression offload (lookaside)

・PCIe Gen3 x8 or PCIe Gen3 x16 lane

・Half height, half length

DU/CU server

Vigo

・Intel® Xeon® D-2183IT processor / 16 cores

4 x 8GB + ECC DDR4 memory

・2U

・PCIe Gen3 x16 lane x2 slot (full height, half length)

・2 power supply units

Vigo2

・Intel® Xeon® Processor D / Up to 20 cores

3 x 8GB/16GB + ECC DDR4 memory

・1U/2U

・PCIe Gen4 x16 lane x3 slot (full height, half length)

・2 power supply units

Vigo3

・Intel® Xeon® Processor D / Up to 10 cores

3 x 8GB/16GB + ECC DDR4 memory

・Pole mount type

・PCIe : Not installed

・1 power supply unit

・Outdoor DU server

BarcelonaMore

・Intel® Xeon® D-2187NT processor / 16 cores

・Up to 32GB DDR4 memory

・1U

・PCIe Gen3 x16 lane x2 slot

・2 power supply units

Palma

・Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor / up to 36 cores

8 x 8GB/16GB + ECC DDR4 memory

・1U/2U

・PCIe Gen4 x16 lane x6 slot (full height, half length)

・2 power supply units

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