Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson introduces Radio 6646, a triple-band, trisector radio that can perform the job of nine radios.
Ericsson claims Radio 6646 cuts energy consumption by 40% compared to triple-band single-sector radios and, with reduced weight—including aluminium—by 60% minimises site footprint as well.
The new radio extends the multiband capabilities of Ericsson tri-sector products by combining 900, 800, and 700MHz frequency bands into one compact 2G to 5G-capable radio.
A 40% reduction in energy usage can translate to yearly savings per site comparable to charging an electric car 40 times.
The 60% reduction in weight of the new triple-band, tri-sector radio will further help CSPs to minimise deployment costs, tower rent, as well as carbon footprint, Ericsson claims.
“Ericsson’s new Radio 6646 will offer a highly compact and flexible solution to expand 5G coverage in a very cost-efficient manner while being economical and sustainable – the footprint and energy consumption achieved are something we believe will be a powerful driver for 5G, and we look forward to the first deployments in Spain,” said Telefónica Spain RAN technology and support manager Vicente Abad.
“Our new energy-efficient radio combines spectrum capabilities in an easy-to-install form factor. This will simplify deployments and extend 5G coverage, starting in Europe. With this latest innovation, service providers can scale up 5G Standalone deployments with new applications for consumers, enterprises, and mission-critical communications,” said Ericsson head of product area network David Hammarwall.
Radio 6646 will expand the wide-area reach, outside-in coverage. It will also increase the capacity of 5G networks, especially when combined with mid-band TDD over carrier aggregation and 5G standalone.
The new radio also supports the 700MHz band, which is expected to be one of the key spectrums for 5G SA deployments, where low bands extend the performance and reach of mid-band TDD.
With three low bands combined, Radio 6646 will enhance both outdoor and indoor coverage for all mobile generations – 2G to 5G – as well as IoT. The frequencies are widely supported by devices and provide immense potential to increase growth of 5G services.
This first appeared in the subscription newsletter CommsWire on 6 September 2022.
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British telco BT has signed an agreement with ScottishPower to strengthen the connectivity of the company’s network of windfarms and offices as well as its hard-to-reach rural green energy sites.
Under the agreement, BT will help ScottishPower increase their capacity to provide greener energy to facilitate UK’s progress to net zero.
BT’s connection will aid ScottishPower’s operational technology on its windfarms allowing controllers to monitor areas like turbine temperature, operating efficiency and the amount of electricity being produced by the site.
BT claims it buys 100% of its energy from renewable resources including Scottish wind farms as part of its sustainability pledge to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2030.
“We understand critical national services and like ScottishPower, we also want to power Scotland’s green economic growth. We are therefore delighted that ScottishPower has trusted and awarded us with this multi-million pound contract as the provider of choice to run its national infrastructure,” said BT business director in Scotland Alan Lees.
“As we grow our renewable energy generation, investing in more windfarms, battery storage and green hydrogen production facilities, IT needs to ensure it supports the business growth and BT is helping us achieve that by helping to future-proof the IT network,” said ScottishPower UK director of infrastructure, operations, and communications Allan Ferguson.
This first appeared in the subscription newsletter CommsWire on 7 September 2022.
Telecommunications company Telstra and Ericsson have introduced a 5G standalone automated and orchestrated services for enterprise featuring interworking with fully automated 5G network slicing, Local Packet Gateway, and 5G enterprise routers with network slicing capabilities delivered by Cradlepoint.
In what both companies claim a world first, Telstra and Ericsson have deployed an automated standards-based network slicing service orchestration capability in the commercial network using Ericsson Orchestration and Ericsson Inventory.
These capabilities provide Telstra customers with services that can deliver network characteristics such as throughput, latency, and resilience required to support digitised operations and processes.
Telstra has also deployed the Ericsson Local Packet Gateway in its commercial 5G network. This Australian first deployment was on display last week at Telstra Vantage via a 5G remote controlled car demonstration that shows how users can benefit from 5G bandwidth, low latency, and data localisation.
In the live demo, the Local Packet Gateway powered the video feed of the remote driving demo onsite, avoiding looping the video back through the mobile network.
The solution’s data localisation leverages edge computing in virtual and hybrid 5G private network environments.
It delivers bandwidth, data security, low latency, and creates a more efficient network overall.
The Local Packet Gateway delivers a small footprint, edge user plane which brings network user traffic management closer to its source so Telstra’s enterprise customers are able to keep traffic on, or close to their premises.
Cradlepoint has delivered its 5G enabled routers and adaptors (e.g E3000 branch router, R1900 vehicle router, W2005 outdoor adaptor, W1850 indoor adaptor) powered by Cradlepoint Netcloud to manage these 5G network capabilities.
“In the past it took a long time to deploy and scale new service constructs in our network. Now, with 5G’s service-based architecture combined with automation via network orchestration, we are able to work with our customers to imagine and deploy new differentiated services quickly and scale them economically,” said Telstra executive product enablement technology Shailin Sehgal.
“Ericsson has developed its Orchestration and Local Packet Gateway solutions to help forward looking customers such as Telstra deliver sought-after enterprise services via automated network slicing and edge use cases,” said Ericsson head of Australia and New Zealand Emilio Romeo.
Ericsson and Telstra will both participate in a live panel discussion on Achieving end-to-end network slicing to unlock 5G opportunities on-stage at Digital Transformation World in Copenhagen on 21 September.
This first appeared in the subscription newsletter CommsWire on 5 September 2022.
Microwave transmission equipment used in mobile backhaul applications grew 5% year-over-year in 2Q 2022 with majority of the market share in mobile backhaul was led by two vendors—Ericsson and Huawei—with a combined market share of nearly 60%, according to firm Dell’Oro Group.
“Demand for mobile backhaul continued to be a strong driver for microwave transmission equipment growth,” commented Dell’Oro Group vice president Jimmy Yu.
“We believe this growth will continue for some time as 5G deployments proliferate beyond geographic locations that have fibre in place,” added Yu.
The 2Q 2022 Microwave Transmission & Mobile Backhaul Quarterly Report highlighted the following:
1. Overall microwave transmission equipment revenue grew 1% year-over-year in the quarter, driven by higher demand for mobile backhaul. The verticals market declined, offsetting some of the gains in mobile. 2. As a result of component shortages, Russia-Ukraine war, and weaker euro currency, the European market for microwave equipment sharply declined. On a constant currency basis, microwave transmission revenue declined approximately 12% from the same quarter a year ago. 3. The vendors with the highest market shares for mobile backhaul in the trailing 12-month period were Huawei, Ericsson, Nokia, Ceragon, and ZTE. Among these vendors, ZTE gained the most market share, nearly doubling its revenue share from the year-ago period.
This first appeared in the subscription newsletter CommsWire on 1 September 2022.
Approximately 70 million new 5G subscriptions were added globally during the second quarter of 2022, according to the latest update to the Ericsson Mobility Report, bringing the total of 5G subscriptions to 690 million.
Ericsson updated its Ericsson Mobility Report with a short three-page Q2 2022 analysis and reported the following statistics:
1. There were about 3 billion mobile subscriptions at the close of Q2 2022 2. There were about 6.1 billion unique mobile subscribers at the close of Q2 2022 3. Mobile broadband accounts for about 86% of all mobile subscriptions 4. About 218 communications service providers had launched commercial 5G services 5. A total of 24 communications service providers had launched 5G standalone (SA) networks 6. Mobile network data traffic grew 39% between Q2 2021 and Q2 2022 7. Total monthly global mobile network data traffic reached 100 EB (exabytes).
This first appeared in the subscription newsletter CommsWire on 31 August 2022.
Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson and China Mobile Zhejiang deploy 5G to oversee public-safety-focused natural disaster management in China.
The deployment follows the successful trial of a 5G mission-critical partnership solution—called the 5G Full-Closed-Loop system for Integrated Natural Disaster Management—in ten cities across the Lishui region in China.
The 5G solution will cover early-warning analysis, natural disaster monitoring, command and dispatch, and post-disaster assessment.
The solution was developed and launched by the Lishui Branch of China Mobile Zhejiang Company and Ericsson along with several industry ecosystem partners under the leadership of Lishui Municipal Emergency Management Bureau.
It was tested in Lishui as the region is vulnerable to large-scale disasters and flash floods during the wet season.
The partners expect nationwide deployment to get underway in the coming weeks.
Ericsson and China Mobile merged respective emergency communication practices, digital twin use cases, and network slicing technologies while jointly building 5G network connectivity.
The solution will address issues in disaster prediction, disaster occurrence, shared data silos, coordinated emergency command, and timely evacuation.
It also incorporates the following:
Integrated 5G sky-land monitoring network: Solves challenges in data integration and sharing, deployment, coverage, and construction and operational costs by ensuring rapid network deployment.
Intelligent 5G multi-hazard early-warning model based: Accelerates data processing and improves accuracy for rapid data transmission, consolidated processing, and precise multi-hazard identification.
Decision-making assistant based on digital map models: A 3D model of disaster sites built by utilising 5G drones. Dynamic renditions of disasters duplicate and analyse impact range and create emergency evacuation routes
Portable 5G sites and communication vehicles for on-site communication: Vehicles provide 5G network coverage across disaster relief sites – with portable 5G antenna-integrated radios weighing less than 10 KG as well as satellite and microwave equipment
Simulated model assessment based on remote-sensing imagery: Evaluates disaster scale, physical damage and direct economic loss through the combined results from on-site surveillance results and the simulated assessment model.
This first appeared in the subscription newsletter CommsWire on 29 August 2022.
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