Sa Standard Comes Out Of Telecom Equipment / Chipmaker To Sprint 5g New Business Opportunities

The 5G industry has entered a new stage of full sprint. 3GPP has officially released 5G NR's independent Networking (SA) design plan, coupled with the non independent Networking (NSA) design that was released at the end of 2017, and the full functional standardization of the first phase of 5G has been completed, which means the 5G commercialization progress will be fully accelerated, while Ericsson (Ericsson), Skyworks and other operators have also stepped up their steps. To sprint new business opportunities for 5G SA.

In order to preempt the 5G SA business opportunity, Ericsson and Intel (Intel) hand in hand to China Mobile Research Institute and China Mobile Jiangsu branch to show the first multi vendor interoperability test that meets the 5G SA standard. Ericsson points out that the SA standard of 3GPP R15 5G NR provides the user face and control surface based on the 5G secondary core network (NGC), and 5G NR NSA and SA are designed to share the same entity standards, so this interoperability test is an important milestone for the 5G independent networking standards to be used for business.

The three parties involved in the cooperation took the lead in the 5G NR interoperability testing (IoDT) in Ericsson's Beijing laboratory. The test uses the 3.5GHz band, its bandwidth is 100MHz, and the multi vendor data transmission is completed. The test system adopts the Ericsson 5G NR base station and the Intel 5G mobile testing platform (Intel 5G). L Platform, 5G MTP) prototype.

Asha Keddy, the vice president of Intel and the general manager of the next generation technology department, said that Intel's continuous cooperation with Ericsson and China Mobile has realized the 3GPP standard 5G NR independent networking multi vendor interoperability test, which will help the industry to deploy the 5G NR independent network.

On the other hand, RF module supplier Skyworks is also actively attacking 5G business opportunities. The company launched Sky5 integrated platform products at the beginning of this year, including high-performance sending / receiving front-end solutions and DRx modules, specially supporting 5G wireless communications under 6GHz, and in the near future Skyworks, in collaboration with national instruments (NI), GT in Shanghai, China At the I summit, the 5G NR device of the company was jointly displayed.

After the release of the 5G SA standard, it is estimated that the 5G NR network will soon be deployed in the 3.3~5GHz spectrum, and the innovation speed of the RF front-end architecture will be greatly improved. Kevin Walsh, senior manager of Skyworks mobile marketing, explains that consumers' demand for enhanced mobile broadband technology must be based on a new 5G NR design to support larger bandwidth and new frequency bands, and to maintain the power consumption of mobile devices within a proper range. To meet the initial demand for 5G NR below 6GHz, Skyworks develops a complete solution with a bandwidth of up to 200 MHz and supports mobile architecture.