Installation Guide#

This section describes how to install the Aerial CUDA-Accelerated RAN.

Aerial E2E Reference BOM and Component Manifest#

5G Infra Component

HW and SW Revision Manifest

Supported

gNB

NVIDIA MGX ARC Pro with CX8 NIC

Y

SMC Grace Hopper MGX Serve with BF3 NIC

Y

NVIDIA DGX Spark

Y

Capgemini L2+

Y

CN

Dell PowerEdge R750 Server

Y

Capgemini CN

Y

FH Switch

Spectrum switch SN5400

Y

Spectrum switch SN3750X

Y

Dell PowerSwitch S5248F-ON

Y

Adva switch FSP 150 XG400

Y

Ciena switch 5164

Y

Cisco switch N9K-C93180YC-FX3S

Y

GM

QULSAR Qg 2 Multi-Sync Gatway

Y

Cables

Dell C2G 1m LC-LC 50/125 Duplex Multimode OM4 Fiber Cable - Aqua - 3ft – Optical patch cable

Y

NVIDIA MCP1650-V01AE30 DAC Cable Ethernet 200GbE QSFP28 1.5m

Y

NVIDIA MCP1600-C001E30N DAC Cable Ethernet 100GbE QSFP28 1m

Y

Beyondtech 5m (16ft) LC UPC to LC UPC Duplex OM3 Multimode PVC (OFNR) 2.0mm Fiber Optic Patch Cable

Y

CableCreation 3ft Cat5/Cat6 Ethernet Cables

Y

PDUs

Tripp Lite 1.4kW Single-Phase Monitored PDU with LX Platform Interface, 120V Outlets (8 5-15R), 5-15P, 12ft Cord, 1U Rack-Mount, TAA

Y

Transceivers

Finisar SFP-to-RJ45 Transceiver

Y

Intel Ethernet SFP+SR Optics

Y

Dell SFP28-25G-SR Transceiver

Y

Ethernet Switch

Netgear ProSafe Plus JGS524E Rackmount

Y

System

Configuration

Applications

NVIDIA MGX ARC Pro

  • Grace CPU with 72 Arm Neoverse V2 Cores

  • NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell GPU

  • CX8 NIC x3

gNB, RU emulator

SMC Grace Hopper MGX

  • 72-core NVIDIA Grace CPU

  • NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPU

  • 480GB of LPDDR5X memory with ECC

  • Supports 96GB of HBM3

  • BF3 NIC x2

gNB, RU emulator

NVIDIA DGX Spark

  • 20-core Arm, 10 Cortex-X925 + 10 Cortex-A725

  • NVIDIA Blackwell GPU

  • CX7 NIC

gNB

x86 platform

Dell R750

  • Server sku 10-AYCG

  • Intel Xeon Gold 6336Y 2.4G, 24C/48T

  • PCIe Gen4

  • Memory 512GB DDR4

  • Storage 2TB

  • BF3 NIC

RU emulator only