Mobile community large Vodafone and software-defined radio specialist Lime Microsystems have introduced they are going to be displaying off a revamped model of their 5G network-in-a-box gadget, constructed round a Raspberry Pi 5 single-board pc.
“Following on from the success of final 12 months’s unveiling of the Raspberry Pi 5G network-in-a-box at Cellular World Congress, Vodafone is introducing a brand new improved model at MWC24 with quite a few use circumstances, starting from community protection extension to 5G community supply by way of drone,” says Lime Micro’s Andrew Again. “The brand new system will likely be absolutely appropriate with Raspberry Pi 5 for greater bandwidth and total efficiency to deal with extra demanding industrial purposes.”
The LimeNET CrowdCell (pictured) is getting a smaller, lower-power successor, powered by a Raspberry Pi 5.
The mission builds on the LimeNET CrowdCell, an open radio entry community (open RAN) answer that makes use of Lime Micro’s LimeSDR software-defined radio know-how to supply a small cell community base station for speedy deployment and distant reconfiguration. The corporate’s partnership with Vodafone noticed the idea taken additional, culminating within the newest revision — which builds across the newest Raspberry Pi 5 single-board pc, providing significantly boosted compute efficiency over prior fashions.
“The Lime radio module has additionally gone by additional enhancements for decrease energy, smaller type issue,” Again provides of the redesign, “and with optimized drivers for the extremely environment friendly Amarisoft 5G [software] stack, enabling deployment of a totally self-contained, plug and play community answer for all kinds of use circumstances.”
The brand new mannequin is because of launch within the first half of this 12 months, Lime Micro has confirmed, and will likely be proven off later this month throughout demos in Vodafone’s sales space at Cellular World Congress (MWC) 2024, Corridor 3, Stand 3E11.