NXP Semiconductors's virtual customer premises equipment (vCPE) solution has successfully completed a virtualization networking trial with China Mobile Communications Corporation (CMCC), achieving an initial success in the area of network function virtualization (NFV) collaboration. This is the first time that NXP has deployed a vCPE solution based on Arm® architecture processors as part of the China Mobile Cloud platform – a breakthrough milestone in the deployment of mass-market residential vCPE equipment with cloud-based configuration management.
During the collaboration, NXP's vCPE solution provided hardware, virtualization and application software solutions for the China Mobile Virtualization network project. Featuring an NXP 64-bit Arm V8 processor, the LS1043A, with four high-performance Arm V8 cores, the vCPE integrates a powerful hardware acceleration engine, which can be used for network packet analysis, data encryption/decryption as well as traffic management and ingress traffic classification and distribution. The platform is the optimum combination of high performance and low power consumption, making it well-suited for enterprise, industrial and residential edge computing gateway devices.
"We are very pleased with the initial success of the NXP and China Mobile collaboration on
network function virtualization,” said Tareq Bustami, NXP Senior Vice President and General
Manager of Digital Networking. “Our vCPE solution demonstrates the advantages of NXP’s
broad product portfolio, demonstrated security technologies, superior efficiency, advanced
virtualization support and a wealth of processor peripherals, all providing unmatched stability.
We look forward to NXP and China Mobile cooperating more broadly and deeply in edge
computing application areas based on the vCPE solution, helping to meet the growing market for high-performance solutions.”
