China Mobile and Huawei announced that they have jointly deployed a wideband Massive MIMO site in Shanghai. Claiming to be world's first, the achievement is touted as a great leap forward for large-scale commercial Massive MIMO deployment and as a evolution towards the 5G technology.
The live network in Shanghai acts as a verification platform, with impressive peak cell throughput rates reaching 72 Mbps uplink, and 630 Mbps downlink.
According to Huawei, this solution has significantly improved single site capability in the 4G era indicated by a 5-fold increase, achieving 5-6 Giga capability of a single site which can greatly improve 4G network spectral efficiency and help effectively handle any capacity challenges encountered during rapid mobile development.
This solution is perfectly suited for the effective enhancement of coverage and interference mitigation capabilities to meet specialized coverage requirements (such as coverage of high-rise buildings), said Huawei.
With the technology, an average spectral efficiency of cells can be improved by 3-fold. Along with the rapid development of video services, the spectral efficiency can be increased to more than 5-fold, claims Huawei.
Huawei added that its in-house-developed chips, new materials, and new techniques are used to provide increasingly compact and lighter site equipment.
