World leader in communications technology and services with
headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden,m Ericsson,
has finalized 5G-readiness for operators by enhancing its 5G Platform with new solutions for the radio and core network, reports ITRealms.
The company also launched 5G Radio Access Network (RAN) commercial
software, based on the recently approved first 3GPP 5G New Radio (NR) standard.
It also introduces a new category of radio products called Street Macro – a new
site type that addresses the need of operators to grow in cities with limited
available radio locations.
ITRealms reports that
to capture growth opportunities presented by new 5G use cases, Ericsson expands
its 5G Core System offering with new capabilities to support 5G NR and also
enhances its Distributed Cloud solution.
Ericsson introduced its 5G Platform in
February 2017 with additions
made in September the same year. It comprises
the 5G core, radio, and transport portfolios together with OSS/BSS, network
services and security.
Fredrik Jejdling, Executive Vice President and Head of
Business Area Networks at Ericsson, says: “Operators who want to be early with
5G now have the essential pieces for launching 5G networks already this year.
With our expanded platform, they will get more efficient networks as well as
opportunities to create new revenues from emerging consumer and industrial use
cases.”
Giovanni Ferigo, CTO, TIM, says: “Ericsson is an
important enabler of our 5G in-field innovation activities that span several
cities in Italy. Together, last December – marking an Italian record - we
activated a 5G NR cell in the mmW frequencies in the city of Torino, reaching
speeds above 20Gbps. We are looking forward to testing Ericsson’s new solutions
that will contribute to address the wide variety of use cases we are working
on.”
5G software – enabling first-movers to launch 5G
ITRealms equally
gathered that available in the fourth quarter of 2018, Ericsson’s 5G radio
network software provides multi-band support
for global deployment. It will allow operators to use new frequency spectrum as
it becomes available.
This will cater efficiently for growing data traffic and enable
access to multimedia content, such as 4K/8K video streaming and virtual
reality/augmented reality. According to Ericsson’s new
economic study of enhanced mobile
broadband, evolution to 5G will enable 10 times lower cost per gigabyte than current
4G.
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