As the metaverse becomes a larger part of the enterprise, business, and our personal lives, the need to ensure high-speed, reliable and secure wireless communications into the metaverse – across the globe –becomes increasingly more important. To that end, AMD has just announced that its recently acquired Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC is being used in the development of multiple Evenstar radio units (RUs). The ultimate goal with these RUs is to accelerate the adoption of Open RAN deployments worldwide and grow the 4G/5G global mobile network infrastructure to better support nascent, connected technologies, like the metaverse.