Baseband 6648, the latest addition to Ericsson’s RAN Compute portfolio, became commercially available in May, said Ericcson.
As a next-generation baseband for LTE and New Radio (NR), it enables up to three times greater capacity than existing Ericsson basebands with proven industry-leading energy efficiency.
Baseband 6648 has been optimized to fit all site types and traffic scenarios, supporting 4G, 5G New Radio and IoT (mixed mode). It has a maximum throughput of 10-15Gbps in downlink and 3Gbps in uplink. To put that in context: a throughput of 10 Gbps enables a 4K movie to be downloaded in less than 30 seconds. It would also enable about 1,700 movies to be streamed simultaneously.
According to Ericsson, Telstra in Australia and Telia in Sweden are longstanding partners of Ericsson who have successfully deployed the new RAN Compute baseband in their commercial networks.
Per Narvinger, Head of Product Area Network, Ericsson
With Baseband 6648, we are evolving our high-performance RAN Compute solution so that our customers can boost the capacity and efficiency of their mobile networks, enabling them to deploy 5G everywhere.
Channa Seneviratne, Network & Infrastructure Engineering Executive, Telstra
We value our long-standing relationship with Ericsson and are delighted to have taken part in bringing the latest addition to their RAN Compute family to market.
