The transition of telecom core functions from purpose-built hardware to commercially available servers has introduced a number of challenges, including compute density, power efficiency, and performance optimization in a cloud environment. Since this large-scale migration kicked off about ten years ago, we’ve seen a massive computing densification, moving from the area of 12 cores per CPU to upwards of 128 core per CPU today. Basically, now a few servers can provide the same compute capacity that previously required an entire rack of equipment.
Dell Technologies is enabling such dense telecom cloud core solutions with the introduction of support for the AMD EPYC™ 9654P and EPYC™ 9754 in the PowerEdge R7615, which will feature NEBS Level 3 Certification for deployments into Telecom Environments. The R7615 is a 2U, single socket 19” rackmount server and with its upcoming NEBS certification (2Q24) will provide the densest, most power-efficient telecom cloud core solution available. Paired with the increased compute density are the inclusion of twelve fast DDR5 (4800MT/s) memory channels, support for PCIe Gen5 and NVMe-based storage will deliver a dense, power-efficient cloud computing platform that has no equal in the telecom space.
NEBS Level 3 Certification is often required in the telecom space. The key feature of this certification is the resilience to provide non-throttled performance from -5C to +55C and the ability to survive a catastrophic seismic event while continuing to provide critical Cloud Core Services, providing a highly available and fault tolerant environment.
