Ericsson 5G Advanced solutions

Business drivers

• Unlock new monetization opportunities in consumer, enterprise, automotive, airspace and robotics segments based on physical location of connected 5G devices.
• Complement GPS with more reliable, robust and cost-efficient 5G technology for mission critical applications.
• Meet addressable forecast market of 3.5 billion 5G Standalone devices in 2030.

Technology enablers

• Device-agnostic software for any 5G device to lower the barrier of entry and increase addressable market.
• Position accuracy with 5G cellular advanced feature set (in line-of-sight), suitable for consumer-based use cases.
• Position accuracy with real-time kinematic (RTK) broadcast advanced feature set, using enhanced GPS-assisted precision.

Business drivers

• Monetize your 5G investment by securing simultaneous SLA  fulfillment for multiple services.
• Offer more flexibility in setting different types of optimization targets for SLA  fulfillment, such as latency or throughput.

Technology enablers

• Latency-prioritized Scheduler on a sub-millisecond level to provide faster response time for new services like cloud gaming.
• Enhanced Uplink (UL) Quality of Service (QoS) Control:Enhanced flexibility in packet prioritization in UL, per QoS, slice or user equipment (UE) group for service differentiation.
• Doubling data radio bearers In the UE for services requiring more data connections such as car modules.

Business drivers

• Grow your service capabilities for public safety, defense, first responders and other segment-specific needs like rail.
• Use one network to connect different organizations in different locations for mission critical activities.
• Guarantee elevated priority for users belonging to prioritized services in case of congestion.

Technology enablers

• Service-aware admission and pre-emption to enable mission critical services prioritized access during congestion.
• Prioritized call queuing to ensure that users are not rejected but queued in congestion, improving accessibility.
• Dedicated features following the Future Railway Mobile Communication System (FRMCS) specifications.

Business drivers

• Enhance existing 5G use cases and enable new ones (mid-tier use cases) by lowering complexity and extending battery life for devices such as smartwatches, other wearables, infotainment modules, FWA CPEs, industrial surveillance cameras and sensors.
• Lower complexity and cost compared to normal 5G smartphone chipsets.

Technology enablers

• Up to 34 percent increased battery life savings with extended discontinuous reception (eDRX) for smartwatches.
• More power efficiency, lower latency, positioning and network slicing vs CAT 1-4.
• Differentiated configuration of selected NR Standalone features for RedCap devices with Service-aware RAN.

Business drivers

• Enable new time-critical use cases in public network deployments such as AR/VR, remote control and mobility automation; generating new revenue streams beyond MBB services.
• Address time-critical use cases with lowest requirements on bounded latency, highest reliability and positioning for dedicated network deployments.

Technology enablers

• Enable consistent latency for elastic applications with RAN assisted rate recommendation (L4S).
• Improve user experience with low latency handovers via lower layer triggered mobility.
• Ultra-fast and reliable handover with make-before-break via Low-latency Mobility with minimal data interruption at cell change, vital for time-critical communications and extended reality.
• Provide precise indoor positioning with less than 1 meter accuracy (dedicated C-IoT only).

Business drivers

• Unlock additional capacity in most loaded scenarios without adding extra site.
• Improve customer loyalty by securing ultimate experience for flagship devices.
• Offer more network deployment flexibilities for most technical demanding scenarios.

Technology enablers

• Increase network capacity in highly loaded scenarios Uplink-aware Advanced Multi-Layer Coordination.

• Stretch device uplink performance via higher order uplink Tx switch and more than two component Carrier Aggregation (CA).

• Provide connectivity beyond the norm with more advanced beamforming (>6GHz) and CA across different time division duplex (TDD) patterns.

• Automated Carrier Aggregation to increase operational efficiency and to secure optimal performance by automatically configuring cell relations for 5G CAlow/mid-band without any manual effort from service providers.

• Automated Radio Resource Partitioning – GTI awarded, world’s first intent-based, real-time orchestrator (running at the gNB) – to adjust the radio resource partitions for different use cases based on the intent provided by the service provider