Ericsson has demonstrated a live C Band network at its North American headquarters in Plano, Texas, using 16-layer downlink Multi-user MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) over 100 MHz. The deployment is the first high-capacity C Band test in the US, Ericsson said, adding that the mid-band 5G milestone reached 5.4 Gbps peak mobile capacity.
The C Band campus network uses a test license C Band Special Temporary Authorization (STA) from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and consists of 64T64R AAS radio, baseband, Router 6000 and core network equipment from Ericsson, and is part of the 5G Distributed Innovation Network at the Plano facility.
The mid-band C Band consists of 500 megahertz between 3.7-4.2 GHz and is critical to 5G deployment.
