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US 12,591,437 B2Granted
Zero touch provisioning of bare metal servers with radio access network software
AssigneeRakuten Symphony, Inc.
InventorsSree Nandan Atur, Ravi Kumar Alluboyina
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Abstract
Systems and methods for zero touch provisioning of a bare metal server to run radio access network (RAN) software. A method includes delivering a network boot program to a bare metal server in a preboot execution environment and causing the bare metal server to execute the network boot program. The method includes registering the bare metal server with a data center automation platform and instantiating a radio access network (RAN) application on the bare metal server.
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A method comprising:
- delivering a network boot program to a bare metal server in a preboot execution environment wherein the network boot program comprises a radio access network vendor distributed unit profile and a radio access network vendor centralized unit profile;
- causing the bare metal server to execute the network boot program;
- registering the bare metal server with a data center automation platform;
- configuring the bare metal server according to the radio access network vendor distributed unit profile and the radio access network vendor centralized unit profile;
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- instantiating a radio access network (RAN) application on the bare metal server.
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