Nokia, Sprint trailblaze to 5G with massive capacity and blistering speeds

Twitter: @akdayama

Right now, as you read this, are you indoors? Perhaps in your office or at home? And are you using a mobile device to access the blog? If you are, you are part of the statistic that says around 80% of all mobile broadband is used inside buildings.

For many users this can be a problem. Signal loss due to walls, windows and interference from other users can make the experience less than satisfying – unless your operator uses Massive MIMO with Carrier Aggregation.

It’s an exciting technology that Nokia, together with Sprint, demonstrated at this year’s MWC Americas in San Francisco in September. The technology is superb for mitigating interference and providing vastly increased capacity and throughput speeds, up to five times the capacity of standard LTE. It’s an important step in the evolution of networks to beyond gigabit speeds ahead of 5G deployment.

The demo used commercially available devices and made use of Sprint’s existing 2.5 GHz spectrum.

It was based on Nokia AirScale Massive MIMO Active Antenna System 64 transmit and 64 receive antennas, together with an AirScale Base Station with Massive MIMO and Carrier Aggregation software.

Massive MIMO with Carrier Aggregation is a building block of high speed, high capacity 5G networks. As the first operator to demonstrate it, the technology is a competitive advantage for Sprint because it is more easily deployed on TDD-LTE 2.5 GHz. It’s also an important innovation that takes advantage of Sprint’s deep 2.5 GHz spectrum holdings.

Watch this video to see how it works:

100 MB of 4K video downloads in 0.19 seconds!

Nokia, Sprint trailblaze to 5G with massive capacity and blistering speeds

Nokia also demonstrated blistering fast 4.2Gbps throughput using Nokia AirScale Base station, which  is the highest throughput record over LTE. For those of you who are keen on the details, we used eight FDD carriers of 20 MHz each and four TDD carriers of 20 MHz each, breaking our previous record of 10 carriers. On each of them we ran 4X4 MIMO – which typically doubles the usual LTE MIMO throughput. Plus we ran 256QAM on all the carriers.

The result was 100 MB of 4K video clip downloaded in 0.19seconds!

Although there are currently no devices or chipsets available to deliver such speeds over 12 carrier aggregation, Nokia AirScale Base Station is ready for when they are – to learn more about AirScale, download our eBook.. Stay tuned for more world firsts  as we continue to blaze a trail to 5G.

Share your thoughts on this topic by replying below – or join the Twitter discussion with @nokianetworks using #5G #broadband #TDLTE

The post Nokia, Sprint trailblaze to 5G with massive capacity and blistering speeds appeared first on Blog | Nokia.

Nokia, Sprint trailblaze to 5G with massive capacity and blistering speeds

Nokia, Sprint trailblaze to 5G with massive capacity and blistering speeds

Source: Nokia Networks