Qualcomm recently announced the launch of a series of 5G network infrastructure chip platforms, for a wide range of deployment scenarios from macro base stations that support massive MIMO to compact small base stations, accelerating the cellular ecosystem to virtualization and interoperability Transformation of Radio Access Networks (RAN) – This trend is driven by 5G.
Naijatechnews.com learned that Qualcomm has launched three new 5G RAN platforms: Qualcomm radio frequency unit platform, Qualcomm distributed unit platform and Qualcomm distributed radio unit platform . The three platforms released this time are the world’s first announced solutions designed to support the deployment of a new generation of open converged virtual RAN (vRAN) networks by leading mobile operators. The above-mentioned platforms are designed to support communication equipment manufacturers to transform public networks and wireless enterprise private networks into innovative platforms to realize the full potential of 5G.
The 5G RAN series platform is designed to support existing and emerging network equipment manufacturers to accelerate the deployment and commercialization of vRAN equipment and features, and to meet the 5G needs of public and private networks. The above-mentioned new platform provides a fully scalable and highly flexible architecture for the deployment of macro base stations and small base stations, and supports all 5G function division options between distributed units (DU) and radio frequency units (RU) – which has become Qualcomm’s existing A powerful supplement to the 5G RAN platform products of small base stations.
The main highlights of Qualcomm 5G RAN series platforms:
- For macro base stations and small base stations: The above solutions can provide scalable support for a wide range of network infrastructures, from macro base stations that support massive MIMO to small base stations.
- High-performance modem and radio frequency system: Qualcomm 5G RAN platform adopts a complete 5G modem and radio frequency system (including baseband, transceiver, radio frequency front end and antenna panel), which aims to achieve excellent wireless performance including high power and large capacity.
- High-performance virtualization products that support integrated hardware acceleration: The flexible vRAN architecture integrates hardware accelerators that support modem and fronthaul processing, and is designed to support high-throughput, low-latency network processing, with excellent energy efficiency and compact device design.
- Flexible and extensible interoperability interface: supports all major 5G functional division options between distributed unit (DU) and radio frequency unit (RU), thereby decoupling the RAN into standard-compliant and interoperable modular components.
- Integrated solutions supporting sub-6GHz and millimeter wave: Distributed unit (DU) native integration supports both sub-6GHz and millimeter wave basebands, and radio unit (RU) supports global 5G sub-6GHz and millimeter wave frequency bands and 4G frequency bands.
Qualcomm is working with industry-leading mobile operators to accelerate the transition to next-generation communications equipment. Engineering samples of the new Qualcomm 5G RAN platform are expected to be available to some network equipment manufacturers in the first half of 2022.
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