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.

#CloudRAN #OpenRAN #5GRAN

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

AIR 3255

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

Highlights

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

What’s new?

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

Benefits

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 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

Antenna 4206 2L 4M 2.1m

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

Highlights

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

What’s new?

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

Benefits

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

A radio software functionality deployed in the RAN Compute product.

Highlights

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.

What’s new?

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.

Benefits

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.

AIR 3284

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

Highlights

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

What’s new?

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.

Benefits

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

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

AIR 5343

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

Highlights

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

What’s new?

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

Benefits

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

MINI-LINK 6355

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

Highlights

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

What’s new?

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.

Benefits

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

Uplink Multi-user Massive MIMO FDD

Radio software functionality to boost uplink capacity.

Highlights

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

What’s new?

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

Benefits

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

Industrializing Open RAN

Comprehensive and future-proof radio portfolio prepared for Open RAN

Freedom of choice

Giving service providers the freedom of choice in evolving network architecture

New automation software

Uplink-aware Advanced Multi-Layer Coordination

Radio software functionality to optimize spectrum utilization.

Highlights

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.

What’s new?

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.

Benefits

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

Entel

Luis Uribe, Corporate Network Manager, says "We are delighted with Ericsson's new generation ultralight Massive MIMO AIR 3255. This Massive MIMO radio fits very well with our sustainability policies and our strategy of energy efficiency and decarbonization in the operation of our network."