Ericsson has announced the commercialisation of the world's first 5G New Radio (NR) for massive MIMO, with the first deployments coming in 2017. Together with the Ericsson 5G Plug-Ins announced in June and the company’s already commercially available Radio System Baseband 5216, Ericsson said it’s the first company to deliver all components of a 5G access network. The new 5G NR is called the AIR 6468, combining advanced antennas with a large number of steerable ports to enable 5G technologies of beamforming, Massive MIMO and Multi-user MIMO. Companies such as AT&T, Swisscom and China Mobile have already committed to using Ericsson's new radio products to help them integrate 5G technologies into existing networks.
A host of new additions to the Ericsson Radio System are also coming that address key 5G requirements, including three new radios supporting Gigabit speeds for LTE and providing further flexibility in design, the Radio 2205 micro solution on unlicensed spectrum that's fully integrated in the Ericsson Radio System, the outdoor micro Baseband 6502 and macro Baseband 6303 to support the growing need for densification, and the Uplink Spectrum Analyzer to remotely identify external interference without the need for costly measurement equipment and site visits.
