Patent ID: 11916999
Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 5:
6. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
executing a radio-based application pipeline processing server located at a site of a radio access network (RAN), wherein the radio-based application pipeline processing server implements at least a portion of a distributed unit (DU) of a radio-based application of the RAN;
selecting, at the radio-based application pipeline processing server, a particular networking hardware device of the radio-based application pipeline processing server to use to transmit at least a portion of mid-haul traffic of the radio-based application to a centralized unit (CU) of the radio-based application, wherein the selecting includes determining whether to use (a) a first networking hardware device incorporated within a first network function accelerator card of the radio-based application pipeline processing server, or (b) a second networking hardware device which is not incorporated within the first network function accelerator card;
causing the portion of mid-haul traffic to be transmitted from the radio-based application pipeline processing server to the CU via the particular networking hardware device; and
causing at least a portion of front-haul traffic of the radio-based application to be transmitted from the radio-based application pipeline processing server to a radio unit (RU) of the radio-based application via the first networking hardware device.