India, March 3 -- Samsung Electronics and Vodafone on Tuesday announced that the companies have successfully completed the first call utilizing Samsung's virtualized RAN (vRAN) solution and Intel1 Xeon 6 SoC (system-on-chip), marking a first milestone in Europe.

This test of the latest chipset reinforces a shared commitment to advance next-generation autonomous networks, which are built on a software-driven, cloud-native and open network architecture, fully supporting AI.

The test call was made on the Intel Xeon 6 SoC optimized for vRAN software capable of supporting intensive workloads, AI applications and services across 2G, 4G and 5G networks on a single high-performance server.

This streamlined configuration paves the way for Vodaf...