Nokia announced the addition of new ultra-broadband products to help operators enhance mobile network performance as they evolve towards 5G.
More capacity, higher speeds and varying network latency are needed to meet the needs of individuals, businesses and IoT, as well as to ensure a smooth transition to 5G.
To augment heterogeneous network deployments and boost coverage and capacity in the busiest hotspots – especially in dense urban environments – operators will need to deploy the next wave of small cells.
The enhanced Nokia AirScale Remote Radio Head portfolio now enables operators to increase peak performance and cell capacity while reducing space requirements at cell sites via new dual- and single-band FDD-LTE and TD-LTE radios, Nokia said.
The Nokia Ultra Dense self-organizing network features on Flexi Zone small cells will simplify these deployments, solving issues caused by reducing the distance between new and existing small cells and ensuring continuous optimization even as further densification occurs.
Nokia has extended the self-organizing network features on its Femtocell portfolio to ensure smoother integration and higher performance in heterogeneous networks as traffic is offloaded from the macro network.
Further, Nokia has enhanced its Nokia Flexi Zone Citizen Band Radio Service small cells to deliver new options to operators to boost coverage and capacity, especially indoors.
To provide backhaul flexibility for ultra-dense heterogeneous city networks – where microwave transport is used to link small cells to fiber access points – Nokia Wavence microwave now supports Carrier SDN.
With Carrier SDN, operators will benefit from new intelligence and automation, including rapid power-up of virtual network functions and adaptable parameters to support changes on the radio access network, such as when people move from work to home, Nokia said.
Further, Nokia enhanced Cloud Packet Core with new cloud-native capabilities and operations to help deliver the performance to support increasing capacity, massive scalability required for densification, and deployment flexibility necessary to deliver low latency, in order to realize the economics of delivering diverse and demanding services and applications.
Nokia is also enhancing the 5G Acceleration Services to include the operator ‘anyhaul’ end-to-end transport network. Nokia will work with operators to assess the readiness of the network and design and implement their 5G strategies and services.
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