Turn on 5G: Ericsson Completes 5G Platform For Operators
· Evolves its
Distributed Cloud offering to optimize applications across multiple sites,
improving latency, security, and resilience of 5G-enabled use cases
· Expands radio
portfolio, supporting smooth evolution from 4G to 5G
Ericsson
(NASDAQ: ERIC) finalizes 5G-readiness for operators by enhancing its 5G Platform with new solutions for the
radio and core network.
Today, the
company launches 5G Radio Access Network (RAN) commercial software, based on
the recently approved first 3GPP 5G New Radio (NR) standard. It also introduces
a new category of radio products called Street Macro – a new site type that
addresses the need of operators to grow in cities with limited available radio
locations.
To capture
growth opportunities presented by new 5G use cases, Ericsson expands its 5G
Core System offering with new capabilities to support 5G NR and also enhances
its Distributed Cloud solution.
Ericsson
introduced its 5G Platform in February 2017 with additions made in September the
same year. It comprises the 5G core, radio, and transport portfolios together
with OSS/BSS, network services and security.
Fredrik
Jejdling, Executive Vice President and Head of Business Area Networks at
Ericsson, says: “Operators who want to be early with 5G now have the essential
pieces for launching 5G networks already this year. With our expanded platform,
they will get more efficient networks as well as opportunities to create new
revenues from emerging consumer and industrial use cases.”
Giovanni
Ferigo, CTO, TIM, says: “Ericsson is an important enabler of our 5G in-field
innovation activities that span several cities in Italy Torino
5G software –
Enabling First-Movers To Launch 5G
Available in
the fourth quarter of 2018, Ericsson’s 5G radio network software provides
multi-band support for global deployment. It will allow operators to use new
frequency spectrum as it becomes available.
The 5G radio
network software announced today complements Ericsson’s already launched
baseband and 5G radios. Operators can simply activate their 5G networks and
take the first steps with commercial 5G capabilities and new applications
leveraging advanced mobile broadband services.
This will
cater efficiently for growing data traffic and enable access to multimedia
content, such as 4K/8K video streaming and virtual reality/augmented reality.
According to Ericsson’s new economic study of enhanced mobile
broadband, evolution to 5G will enable 10 times lower cost per gigabyte than
current 4G.
The radio
offering is complemented with 5G Core commercial software optimized for 5G
throughput, network capacity and scalability. Ericsson's Packet Core and
Unified Data Management solutions will deliver enhancements throughout 2018 to
efficiently support 5G services. These solutions can be further upgraded with
new functionalities as the 3GPP 5G standard evolves.
Ericsson
Distributed Cloud – Accelerating 5G And IoT Growth
Ericsson also
evolves its Distributed Cloud offering for cloud
application deployment across multiple sites - central, distributed, and edge.
Managed, orchestrated, and perceived as one solution, it improves latency,
security, and resilience, and fulfils regulatory requirements for 5G-enabled
use cases. Ericsson Distributed Cloud combines the best of telecom and cloud to
enable networks as open cloud platforms for all workloads, including
telecom, consumer, and enterprise applications.
As part of
the Ericsson Distributed Cloud, Ericsson will support deployments of hardware
options in a multi-vendor framework. With fast deployable telecom-grade open
software for remote upgrade and operation, Ericsson brings Software Defined
Infrastructure (SDI) to the edge. To support efficient deployment of cloud
native applications, Ericsson also expands the offering with support for
containers in a distributed cloud infrastructure.
Radio
Portfolio Expanded – Supporting Smooth Evolution From 4G To 5G
Ericsson adds
a new category of radio products for cities, which it calls Street Macro – a
new layer between macro and micro. These radios will be on building facades
with a smaller footprint but the necessary strength to secure network
efficiency and coverage.
Furthermore,
the company unveils new radio products supporting Massive MIMO technology.
These products enable a smooth evolution from 4G to 5G and address the need for
increased capacity, while simplifying use for wider adoption.
All installed
base radios from the Ericsson Radio System delivered since 2015 will be 5G
NR-capable by a remote software installation.
Ed Gubbins,
Senior Analyst, Global Telecom Technology & Software, at GlobalData, says:
“The combination of Ericsson’s new products and 5G support for radios already
deployed in the field will give operators access to a very broad and flexible
5G portfolio. They will be able to move quickly into enhanced mobile broadband
and address the new opportunities with industrial applications.”
Roberto
Kompany, Senior Analyst at Analysys Mason says: “Reduced latency, improved
throughput, better security, reliability and regulatory compliance are all
critical capabilities that operators must deliver for 5G use cases such as
augmented reality, assisted factory and autonomous driving vehicles. A
distributed cloud capability that enables cloud computing, storage and
networking to be placed flexibly in central, regional and edge locations and
which can be managed seamlessly, end-to-end, is an important component of a 5G
platform.”
8th Jan. 2018
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