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More is more is more

More performance. More sustainability. More openness.

Exceed expectations on 5G and beyond with innovation

In the fast-evolving 5G landscape, users, service providers and industry all expect more, and we at Ericsson are embracing this desire with new solutions for more performance, sustainability, openness and automation.

What is 5G and beyond?

When it comes to what you want from 5G, it often comes down to your perspective – and no matter what it is you’re looking for, you want more of it.  

Users want a consistent 5G experience, anytime and anywhere, and service providers aim to have the best 5G networks with increased energy efficiency and maximized spectrum, all done in a sustainable way. The industry wants to increase the value of 5G, with more automated networks and from purpose-built RAN towards Cloud RAN and Open RAN, where automation and openness will be the cornerstones.

Ericsson's enhanced portfolio offers service providers:

  • The freedom of choice in evolving network architecture
  • Maximized performance on all 5G layers
  • Incentivized mid-band deployments
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Innovation is everything, and innovation in 5G is nothing without Ericsson innovators. Our comprehensive and future-proof radio portfolio is Open RAN-prepared with 12 new hardware and software solutions. Watch the video to learn more | 2:32 min

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New sustainable solutions

AIR 3255

AIR 3255

Ultralight Massive MIMO mid-band TDD radio with 32 transmitters and receivers (32T/32R).

  • Single-band TDD
  • 12 kg
  • 128 antenna elements
  • 200 MHz instantaneous bandwidth
  • eCPRI - Packet fronthaul
  • Passive cooling – no fans, less maintenance
  • Open RAN prepared

Highly energy efficient, and with its reduced weight and size, the AIR 3255 will help service providers to incentivize mid-band deployments.

  • More than 25% energy savings and 20% lower embodied carbon footprint  
  • Global TDD sub-6 GHz frequency bands support
  • Enhanced receiver processing and improved energy efficiency with a new generation Massive MIMO Ericsson Silicon 
Radio 4461 HP

Radio 4461HP

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

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

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

  • Improved performance and extended coverage with 50% higher output power
  • 42% lower embodied carbon footprint and 38% less weight
  • 33% energy savings
Radio 8873

Radio 8873HP and Radio 8873

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

  • 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

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

  • 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

Radio 8873

Antenna 4206 2L 4M 2.1m

High-performing sustainable multi-band antenna featuring a brand-new honeycomb structure.

  • 28 kg 
  • 12 ports, 2 low-band, 4 mid-band 
  • Optimized shape and vortex generators 

Antenna 4206 introduces a new honeycomb structure enabling:

  • More uplink throughput, less interference: Precise building practices enabling enhanced PIM and up to 85% beam efficiency

  • Reduced embodied carbon: 49% reduced embodied carbon footprint thanks to lighter structure and 100% recyclable radome

  • Efficient deployment: Precise engineering reduces weight by 24% and improve windload by 20%, lowering site investments and simplifying deployment
  • Enables PIM 153 dBc @ 2x30 W, improving network performance

  • Up to 85% beam efficiency

  • 49% reduced embodied CO2 and 24% reduced weight

  • 20% reduced wind load

Automated Energy Saver

Automated Energy Saver

A radio software functionality deployed in the RAN Compute product.

Automated Energy Saver takes input the user experience (Mbps) to configure and orchestrate accordingly all the parameters of the multiple radio energy saving features in the most efficient way.

This functionality is the first step towards intent-based automation. This is a new operations paradigm where the service provider provides the SLA targets or intents to the network instead of configuring or setting up all the different parameters to achieve those objectives.

  • Secure user experience: The traffic is measured in real time and used as input.  
  • Optimize energy performance: The algorithm finds the sweet spot to balance energy consumption and network performance.  
  • Simplify operations: The algorithm is based on setting up only one parameter or intent (user experience target) to automate the configuration of multiple energy saving functionality.

New high-performing solutions

Triple-band Massive MIMO FDD with 32 transmitters and receivers (32T/32R)

AIR 3284

Triple-band Massive MIMO FDD with 32 transmitters and receivers (32T/32R). 

  • 192 antenna elements 
  • 1800, 2100 and 2600 MHz, full instantaneous bandwidth
  • 47 kg
  • eCPRI – packet fronthaul
  • Passive cooling – no fans, less maintenance
  • Open RAN prepared

With its highly optimized weight and design, the AIR 3284 will simplify rollouts in high-capacity sites to handle more of the demand for uplink capacity.

  • 4x higher uplink capacity vs. 4T/4R radio
  • 2x higher downlink capacity vs. 4T/4R radio
  • Boost uplink and downlink performance in high-traffic sites
Radio 4823

Radio 4823

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

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

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

  • 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
Triple-band Massive MIMO FDD with 32 transmitters and receivers (32T/32R)

AIR 5343

mmWave radio used for high-capacity and high-performing Fixed Wireless Access with macro deployment.

  • 70 dBm EIRP
  • 1600 MHz total carrier bandwidth 
  • 16 kg 
  • eCPRI - Packet fronthaul  
  • Passive cooling – no fans, less maintenance 

AIR 5343 allows high-capacity and high-performing Fixed Wireless Access with macro deployment.

  • 11 dB coverage boost and up to 1600 MHz total carrier bandwidth
  • 85% energy savings vs. peak with Deep Sleep functionality support
  • Distributed and Centralized RAN optimized
Triple-band Massive MIMO FDD with 32 transmitters and receivers (32T/32R)

MINI-LINK 6355

New generation of all-outdoor E-band microwave node (E-band =70/80 GHz). 

  • 3x25/10/1 GE
  • 24 dBm
  • hRLB functionality
  • Radio Deep Sleep

Extended hop length and 25 GE interfaces to support high capacity backhaul for ubiquitous broadband. The use of the E-band spectrum enables +10 Gbps capacities for 5G and beyond.

  • 10 Gbps capacity in a compact all-outdoor format
  • 2x output power compared to the existing E-band node to extend the hop length
  • 25 Gbps interfaces for increased flexibility while enabling multi-band configurations up to 25 Gbps capacity

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Triple-band Massive MIMO FDD with 32 transmitters and receivers (32T/32R)

Uplink Multi-user Massive MIMO FDD

Radio software functionality to boost uplink capacity.

Supporting spatial multiplexing in the uplink with up to four layers and is based on the full interference rejection combining (IRC) advanced receiver.

Massive MIMO FDD is crucial to capture more of the uplink traffic growth and boosting both downlink and uplink performance.

  • 2x incremental uplink capacity
  • Increased uplink throughput
  • Increased spatial resource utilization due to the spatial multiplexing, where the uplink layers are co-scheduled on the same time and frequency resources

Open RAN prepared

Open RAN prepared portfolio

Comprehensive and future-proof radio portfolio prepared for Open RAN 

Giving service providers the freedom of choice in evolving network architecture

New automation software

Uplink-aware Advanced Multi-Layer Coordination

Uplink-aware Advanced Multi-Layer Coordination

Radio software functionality to optimize spectrum utilization.

Evolution of Ericsson´s Advanced Multi-Layer Coordination framework- to move users between 5G frequency layers based on different goals: maximized user throughput, service need and energy efficiency.

Key to optimizing spectrum utilization, increasing user peak throughput and giving the users the experience they expect with automated software algorithms to distribute the users among the 5G frequency layers considering both downlink and uplink cell load.

  • Secure traffic steering for both downlink and uplink
  • Support for uplink heavy uses cases
  • Enforce strong uplink performance

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