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title: 20240411 Intel Enabling RAN Evolution Whitepaper
description: Intel® Ethernet 800 Series Network Adapters provide high-precision timing capabilities that enable the network synchronization needed for vRAN deployments on open-standards-based general-purpose server hardware. These capabilities support greater choice in solutions and lower total costs, while making solutions more future-ready.
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The evolution of radio access networks (RANs) from closed-ecosystem, single-vendor approaches to highly interoperable sets of open standards\[1\]based solutions continues to drive down implementation cost and complexity.

Software-defined virtualized RANs, consisting of disaggregated subsystems and elements, enable a greater level of choice as communication service providers (CoSPs) can mix and match elements from multiple vendors to suit customer requirements.

In this paper, you’ll learn how timing-enhanced Intel® Ethernet 800 Series Network Adapters provide not only connectivity for RAN deployments, but also the network timing and synchronization that’s critical for 5G virtual TAN and Open RAN solutions.

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