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Samsung successfully completed a live commercial call using its virtualized radio access network (vRAN) platform on a tier-one US operator's network, leveraging Intel's Xeon 6 system-on-chip processors. The test utilized Samsung's cloud-native vRAN on a single commercial off-the-shelf server from Hewlett Packard Enterprise and a cloud platform from Wind River, demonstrating the capability to support commercial services traditionally requiring multiple servers.

Samsung claims that vRAN can reduce total cost of ownership by 13% and operational expenses by 25% over five years compared to distributed RAN frameworks. The Xeon 6 platform was launched in early 2025, targeting data center and networking systems, and has been adopted by companies like Nokia for 5G applications. Samsung's ongoing collaboration with Intel and Wind River has played a crucial role in this advancement, which builds on previous lab trials conducted in early 2024.