RE: summary...comment appreciated7 Dec 2020 23:34
The important aspects for me are.
The Ethernity SmartNIC based products have tested successfully with multiple OEMs and end users (Telecom) in China. Now Ethernity anticipate large scale field testing.
In Southeast Asia (outside China) a National Telecom has successfully integrated its open source-based 5G User Plane Functionality (UPF) software onto Ethernity's ACE-NIC100 FPGA SmartNIC and tested it against other tier-1 competitors. The operator is now progressing to commercial field trials utilising the ACE-NIC100 to reduce cost, space and latency, noting that the Company's router-on-FPGA NIC and forwarding engine was selected over SmartNICs from the top two tier-1 SmartNIC competitors.
One of Ethernity's partners was selected to develop customised UPF software for a private 5G network to a Chinese mobile service operator as part of the OpenUPF initiative, which will now be targeted primarily toward industrial and private 5G deployments. Ethernity's ACE-NIC will be used to meet the operator's performance requirements, by implementing the forwarding within the FPGA SmartNIC to reduce latency and increase performance.
Ethernity now has a manufacturing capability in India to export hardware outside of India in addition to the Indian Market.
The Company is receiving significant interest in its ACE-NIC100 for 5G Distributed Unit (DU) with embedded Virtual Router function, which product offering was announced on 22 October 2020. This includes multiple interactions with major server vendors and system integrators who anticipate incorporating the FPGA router data plan embedded in the ACE-NIC, into their offering.
Ethernity's ACE-NIC100 is currently being tested by a European vendor for use in 4G Gateways and to allow operators to easily scale their performance to 5G.
Ethernity are commencing a significant marketing strategy in China supported by a $185000 grant from the Israeli government.
Ethernity are progressing on many fronts and when tested against the competition are consistently proving the top performer.
Income will flow from OEMs, Integrators and Telecom over the next two years. It's all going to start small but scale up rapidly.