Vodafone partners Salience, iPronics to explore potential of silicon photonic chips for Open RAN

NEW DELHI: Vodafone’s engineers at its R&D Centre in Spain are exploring the potential for new silicon photonic chips for the networks of the future, particularly high-capacity open radio access networks (Open RAN).

Vodafone said in a blog Friday that these chips would sit at the heart of its mobile base station, providing an “ultra-low-latency, highly programmable, and greener network”. Their integration would also support the massive advances in computation seen in new technologies like generative AI, cyber security, including quantum computing, autonomous vehicles, and more.