Iceotope, Intel, HPE, nVent unite to develop Kul Extreme for Open RAN tech

Iceotope states that the Kul Extreme can accommodate high-performance liquid and air-cooled devices within a single enclosure. Further, the solution is sustainable, consumes less energy and can help telco service providers and businesses achieve net-zero goals for distributed edge workloads, the company says.

Company executives say the scalability of Iceotope’s Kul Extreme is one of its key features. Configurable for both small and large-scale settings, from a single server at a cellular base station to an enterprise data center, this technology also exhibits versatility. According to the company, the solution lowers maintenance costs and minimizes downtime and out-of-band remote management ability.

In the past, Iceotope worked with Intel and HPE to incorporate its precision immersion liquid cooling tech into edge data centers. The company claims this reduced energy usage by 30 percent. The company says the Kul solution enables the transition to net-zero operations and enhances processing performance for resource-intensive applications.

“I’m delighted to announce the important outcome of this collaboration – Kul Extreme, a class-leading, an integrated solution enabling the most demanding workloads to be scalably, efficiently and sustainably operated at the extreme edge,” says David Craig, the CEO at Iceotope.

HPE ProLiant DL110 telco servers have been integrated into the Kul Extreme chassis, designed with Open RAN workloads in mind. The company foresees the demand for Open RAN technologies to increase as enterprise applications necessitate processing massive amounts of data where it generates.

According to an executive at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, the co-developed solution addresses enterprise demand for power efficient, low latency, scalable data processing in remote edge locations.

“The combined solution enables customers to deliver performance, scaling and energy efficiency improvements, as well as extending server lifecycles and reducing maintenance costs,” says Phil Cutrone, the senior vice president and general manager of Service Providers, OEM and Telco at HPE.

Last year, Iceotope secured £30 million in funding to accelerate the development of immersion liquid cooling technology.

Article Topics

cooling systems  |  energy efficiency  |  Hewlett Packard Enterprise  |  Iceotope Technologies Ltd.  |  Intel  |  nVent  |  Open RAN  |  sustainability