China Mobile and ZTE have recently signed a collaboration on 5G network energy efficiency enhancements.
China Mobile and important industry partners are jointly conducting research on the new-generation low-power base station architecture, more efficient devices, and more effective energy-saving solutions to promote the implementation and commercial use of an energy-saving network architecture and technical solutions.
In order to meet the demands for network capacity, Massive MIMO base stations and the Ultra Dense Network (UDN) involving small cells will gradually become the trend and major architecture for future network construction. The rapid increase in services accelerates the increase in site sizes and rapid growth in energy consumption.
In response to the promotion of energy-saving technologies, ZTE proposed a variety of energy-saving solutions for enhancing the overall efficiency of Massive MIMO base stations. The Massive MIMO technology poses higher requirements for hardware integration, and the highly integrated multi-channel chip is designed to deliver high energy efficiency of AAUs.
ZTE claims that it solved the difficulties in Massive MIMO base stations by using self-developed vector processing chips. As of now, ZTE's Pre5G products and solutions utilising Massive MIMO and other key technologies have been deployed on more than 60 networks in over 40 countries, including China, Japan, Austria, Singapore, Spain, Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia.
Zhang Shizhuang, Planning Director, ZTE's TDD Product
ZTE is willing to work with the partners in the industry chain to build more energy-efficient networks from the six perspectives of architecture evolution, networking, energy-saving technologies, application scenarios, new base stations, and chip evolution, laying a solid foundation for large-scale commercial use of 5G networks.
