More is more is more

Introducing a new line-up of Open RAN prepared ultralight remote radios

Ericsson's new line-up of remote radios brings more performance, more sustainability and more openness.

Ericsson´s comprehensive remote radio portfolio is prepared for Open RAN, offering service providers freedom of choice in evolving the network architecture. The new lightweight and easily deployable solutions additionally offer multi-band capacity, improved uplink and lower energy consumption. The result is a future proof portfolio with leading sustainability.

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Radio 4823

Triple-band Radio FDD with 4 transmitters and 8 receivers (4T/8R).

Highlights

33 kg
eCPRI - Packet fronthaul
Passive cooling – no fans, less maintenance
Open RAN prepared

What’s new?

Evolve your network quickly and easily and boost uplink performance, without making changes to passive antennas when Radio 4823 is deployed.

Benefits

2x higher uplink capacity with reused passive antenna
Enhanced performance with power-sharing functionality
Improved downlink performance with separate remote electrical tilt on the 2.6GHz frequency band to extend coverage or network capacity

Radio 4461HP

High-power and ultralight mid-band TDD radio with four transmitters and four receivers (4T/4R).

Highlights

Single-band TDD
10 kg
eCPRI - Packet fronthaul
Passive cooling – no fans, less maintenance
Open RAN prepared

What’s new?

Radio 4461HP allows easy deployment of mid-band TDD in low/medium capacity sites.

Benefits

Improved performance and extended coverage with 50% higher output power
42% lower embodied carbon footprint and 38% less weight
33% energy savings

Radio 8873HP and Radio 8873

Ultralight mid-band TDD in standard and high power (HP) variants with eight transmitter and eight receivers (8T/8R).

Highlights

Single-band TDD
21 kg for Radio 8873HP, 19 kg for Radio 8873
eCPRI - Packet fronthaul
Passive cooling – no fans, less maintenance
Open RAN prepared

What’s new?

Radio 8873HP and Radio 8873 allows easy deployment of mid-band TDD in low/medium capacity sites.

Benefits

Improved performance and extended coverage with 20% higher output power for the high power variant
14% lower embodied CO2 and weight
More sustainable with 10% energy savings

Ultralight remote radios

What's new?

Triple-band: Radio 4485 for FDD, delivering 50 percent reduced embodied carbon* footprint and more than 20 percent energy savings vs. comparable radios.

Dual-band: Radio 4890 for FDD has 4 transmit and 8 receive branches, enhancing the uplink without need to shift antennas.

Single-band: Radio 4471 with 4 transmit and receive branches in a 10 kg costume enables easy rollouts of additional frequency bands.

Key features

Powered by Ericsson Silicon, tailor-made digital front-end, PIM cancellation, and packetized fronthaul
Passive cooling across portfolio—no fans, less maintenance
Cloud RAN ready

Radio 4485

25 kg, 24 liters
50% lower embodied carbon* footprint
Half the footprint, 4T4R on three frequency bands
Up to 640 W output power with power sharing

*Embodied carbon consists of all greenhouse gas emissions that have occurred before the product is used. It includes emissions from the extraction of raw materials, transportation to suppliers’ production, Ericsson manufacturing, and product transportation up to the customer. 

“Swisscom is a world-leading operator in Switzerland, not only from a network performance perspective but also in terms of being the world’s most sustainable telecom operator. We have relentless focus on providing our customers the best mobile services while at the same time curbing the overall energy consumption. Ericsson’s latest technology breakthroughs such as the energy-saving triple-band Radio 4485 shows that Swisscom can continue to deliver on our customer promises using products that are smaller, lighter, and even more energy efficient. We look forward to seeing this radio in the field.”

- Mark Düsener, Executive Vice President, Mobile Network and Services, Swisscom