A Holistic Study of Power Consumption and Energy Savings Strategies for Open vRAN Systems

Mobile network operators have been eager to find solutions to reduce the energy consumption of their networks either by using the latest radio access technology or by optimizing the use of active and passive components in their network.

This white paper examines the implementation aspects of cloud-native virtualized Open RAN systems powered by Intel x86-based commercial servers and containerized and highly optimized RAN software developed by Mavenir and Intel, as well as strategies and technologies that are incorporated or are under development to optimize the overall system power consumption and to ensure energy efficiency across various network components and the network are described.