Ericsson said its Networks Software 15B, world’s first software-only upgrade of installed base LTE baseband hardware, offers capabilities in radio access, cloud & virtualization, network management & control domain — to boost networks for maximum performance.
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The new Ericsson Radio System will also operate with Networks Software 15B.
Ericsson Networks Software 15B will support LTE TDD and FDD operation.
The new release includes improved Cloud Execution Environment ready for telecom applications.
New virtualized network functions enable speed and accessibility, including Ericsson Virtual Router offering redundancy and scaling 20 times higher than competition. Common hardware and software also efficiently enables TDD-FDD carrier aggregation, which improves the TDD application coverage area by up to 200 percent.
In the Networks Software 15B release, Ericsson is improving throughput and availability in the Cloud Execution Environment. This is needed to meet the high requirements telecom applications have on infrastructure.
The introduction of the Ericsson Virtual Router provides the industry’s first carrier-grade IP routing system, offering agility in service and infrastructure deployment based on a truly modular architecture. It offers redundancy and scaling that is 20 times higher than its nearest competitor.
Ericsson is unifying and simplifying the network management across LTE and Evolved Packet Core (EPC). Automated handling of up to 60,000 LTE cells is shortening the time-to-market significantly for LTE roll-out.
LTE Psi is introduced to support the next wave of LTE coverage expansion more cost-effectively. LTE Psi is an Ericsson innovation delivering full cell coverage by sharing a single radio across three antennas. This improves the energy efficiency of a full coverage LTE cell site by 40 percent.
With WCDMA/HSPA projected to make up the majority of subscriptions in 2020, Networks Software 15B includes app coverage enhancements for mobile device users. These include WCDMA Uplink Coordinated Multipoint, which improves capacity by up to 20 percent, and Enhanced Uplink Low Latency Pre-Scheduling, which increases initial throughput by up to 40 percent.
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