- Nokia’s new, industry-leading 5G portfolio covers baseband, radio, and massive MIMO antennas offering huge 5G capacity, coverage, and easy deployment
- Introduces industry’s lightest massive MIMO units at 17kg enabling simplified deployments and faster time to market
- Nokia’s new comprehensive range of products are powered by Nokia’s latest generation of ReefShark chipsets
- Nokia’s extended Single RAN accelerates 5G rollouts and cuts overall RAN Total Cost of Ownership
The innovative solutions are powered by the latest
generation of Nokia’s ReefShark System-on-Chip (SoC) chipsets and deliver the
highest capacity and network performance while enabling efficient deployments
and operation. The rollout of the new products is already underway.
Nokia introduces its new generation of ReefShark-powered
AirScale massive MIMO antennas with both 32TRX and 64TRX products, as well as
8T8R remote radio head solutions. The 32TRX is the industry’s lightest, at
17kg, simplifying and speeding up site deployments.
Notably, this low weight is achieved at the same time as
supporting high radio frequency bandwidth (200 MHz occupied bandwidth and 400
MHz instantaneous bandwidth) and delivering high radio frequency power output,
without compromise. Both the new 32TRX and the new 64TRX massive MIMO antennas
support both fragmented spectrum and network sharing cases.
Nokia also introduces its new SoC-based baseband plug-in
cards to boost the capacity of the AirScale System Module. The new
ReefShark-powered plug-in cards deliver up to eight times more throughput and
serve up to eight times more cells compared to previous generations.
They are easily installed and simplify the upgrade and
extended operation of all AirScale deployments. Nokia’s baseband module can
support 90,000 connected users simultaneously and has 84 Gbps throughput. The
highly efficient ReefShark powered plug-in cards also reduce power consumption
by up to 75 percent. Nokia’s modular AirScale baseband enables mobile operators
to scale capacity flexibly and efficiently and as their 5G business evolves.
Nokia Single RAN software now includes 5G, accelerating 5G
rollouts and cutting overall radio access network TCO (Total Cost of
Ownership), by unlocking network efficiencies with common transport, common
operability, common software delivery, and increased hardware sharing. The
combination of Nokia’s Single RAN software and the new baseband plug-in cards
offer multi-mode (2G, 3G, 4G, 5G) and multi-band and supports the latest
fronthaul interfaces (eCPRI) on a single baseband platform, simplifying the
network and lowering costs.
Nokia’s AirScale baseband architecture is designed to be
future-proof and support the increasing demands for wireless traffic. By
keeping the L1 and L2 (Layer 1 and Layer 2) computing separate from L3 (Layer
3) and Transport baseband plug-in units, capacity can be added when and where
it is needed in the network. Network modernization can be simply achieved
either by software upgrade or by adding new plug-in units into the existing
baseband.
Nokia’s ReefShark chipsets will also play a critical role in
future Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) capabilities.
Nokia has already introduced AI/ML features in areas such as predictive load
balancing, anomaly detection, and intelligent traffic steering.
All Nokia ReefShark platforms are AI/ML ready and Nokia is
carrying out proof of concepts with customers this year in innovative areas such
as Massive MIMO beam pattern optimization, energy-saving, advanced traffic
steering, advanced packet scheduling, and alarm pattern discovery.
Patrick Filkins, Senior Research Analyst, IoT and Mobile
Network Infrastructure, IDC, commented: “5G networks are absolutely critical
for improving network capacity and performance, particularly when higher
bandwidth is in demand. Nokia’s new portfolio addresses these concerns by
enabling mobile operators to flexibly scale capacity while helping to smoothly
transition to 5G from existing technologies easily and cost-effectively.
The integration of Nokia’s ReefShark SoCs across both radio
and baseband boosts performance and capacity and the new massive MIMO antennas
set a new benchmark for low weight without compromising on performance. These
solutions will help mobile operators to address the increasingly dynamic mobile
services space that urgently requires more capacity.”
Tommi Uitto, President of Mobile Networks, Nokia, said: “Our
new generation of ReefShark-powered AirScale radio and baseband products is
evidence of the successful transformation of our business and ability to
deliver market-leading products to our global customers.
Nokia’s new portfolio enables communication service
providers to offer both consumer and enterprise customers with cutting-edge 5G
experiences with premium speeds, capacity, and connectivity underpinned by
seamless, simple, and efficient ‘plug-in’ deployment. Our new AirScale products
are O-RAN ready.
They consume less energy and highlight our commitment to
climate change. We’re excited to see our customers deploying these products and
see the transformative impact of 5G technology.”