Telecom equipment maker Huawei has joined hands with Telefonica to launch the world’s first 5G-oriented antenna deployment solution.
The 5G solution – announced at the 2017 Global Antenna Technology & Industry Forum in Munich — can resolve the challenge of insufficient antenna installation space for the deployment of both high-band 4T4R over Sub 3 GHz and Massive MIMO.
Insufficient antenna installation space is an issue of network deployment during the evolution from 4G to 4.5G/5G. As 700 MHz, 1400 MHz and other new spectrums are distributed, full bands 4T4R has emerged as a mainstream configuration.
Global mobile operators are expected to reserve antenna installation space for Massive MIMO to implement a smooth evolution. A single antenna that integrates all Sub 3 GHz bands and reserves space for Massive MIMO can be a typical antenna solution for 5G.
Huawei and Telefonica Deutschland jointly release 5G-oriented antenna deployment solution, which incorporates both a 14-port multi-band antenna and a TDD 3.5 GHz Massive MIMO antenna to meet Telefonica’s requirements for an easy network evolution towards 5G.
“We believe that during the future-oriented network evolution of MBB, antenna installation space severely hinders the progress of network deployment. Huawei’s 5G-oriented antenna deployment solution can address the challenge of insufficient space, while ensuring network performance and capacity,” said Jaime Lluch, Radio Access Network Director in Telefonica Deutschland.
Joyee Zhang, president of Huawei Wireless Network Antenna Business Unit, said the world’s first 5G-oriented antenna deployment solution can help operators to overcome the obstacles of 5G network deployment.
FDD antenna
Huawei also released its new FDD antenna and FDD/TDD converged antenna which will be commercially available by the second half of 2018.
These antennas apply to full-band 4T4R and FDD/TDD convergent networking to support a 5G-oriented smooth evolution.
The new full-band 4T4R platform provides antenna to support two full low bands and four full high bands. This product adopts innovative decoupling (coupling between dipoles causes antenna performance degradation) and dipole reuse (dividing wide band dipole into two narrow bands using combiners) technologies to support co-antenna deployment on the 700MHz, 800MHz, and 900MHz bands.
The global telecom equipment maker said it supports 4T4R in all bands including L band, within a width of only 469mm. This helps reserve antenna space for the deployment of Massive MIMO and 5G NR.
