Samsung’s 5G vision is to bring together the best global expertise and the best technical knowledge that can help carriers and consumers realize the full benefits of 5G.
The giant, which has been in this market for a few years, has been accelerating since Huawei was ejected from many markets. Samsung has been pushing the door of major mobile operators for a few years and Huawei’s exclusions in North America and parts of Europe have given new momentum. Now, a major deal with Vodafone for Open RAN 5G equipment in the UK at 2,500 rural locations suggests that these efforts are starting to bear fruit in Europe. Samsung is welcome as an alternative supplier of RAN equipment, so that the choice does not boil down to little more than the Nordic duopoly of Ericsson and Nokia. Deutsche Telekom has selected the Samsung kit to test autonomous 5G in the Czech Republic.
Samsung at the same time has just unveiled new chipsets capable of improving performance, increasing energy efficiency and reducing the size of end-to-end 5G solutions, as well as a new all-in-one radio, as the company strives to expand its share in the global telecommunications equipment market and catch up with major players such as Huawei, Ericsson and Nokia.
Virtualisation
The South Korean provider said its virtualized core networks already carry more than 15% of global mobile traffic. Most are in India, where Samsung has said it is providing a virtual core to one of the country’s major operators. Samsung and Reliance Jio worked together around a virtual core in 2019.
The vendor has claimed it was the first to release a non-autonomous 5G core (NSA), and preparations are underway to launch a standalone version, which can process up to 305 Gbps of data per server. Samsung said its equipment was used for the first fully virtual 5G RAN in the United States, a system for dynamic spectrum sharing and Massive MIMO radios. Verizon said earlier this year that it has deployed Samsung’s Virtualized RAN (vRAN) product.
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For a true 5G ecosystem, technologies such as beamforming and Massive Multiple Input and Multiple Output (Massive MIMO) are essential to increase spectral efficiency and provide cost-effective and reliable coverage. Beam forming focuses power on the desired users to beam, extend coverage, and increase speed. Massive MIMO is a system with a high number of antennas which makes it much more resistant to interference and intentional jamming than standard MIMO networks which use two or four antennas.
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