Mobile community big Vodafone and software-defined radio specialist Lime Microsystems have introduced they are going to be exhibiting 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 Cell 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 through drone,” says Lime Micro’s Andrew Again. “The brand new system shall be totally suitable with Raspberry Pi 5 for increased bandwidth and general 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 venture 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 offer 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 way of additional enhancements for decrease energy, smaller kind 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 shall be proven off later this month throughout demos in Vodafone’s sales space at Cell World Congress (MWC) 2024, Corridor 3, Stand 3E11.
