The technological space is improving with each passing day as companies are using a major chunk of their resources to come up with highly efficient solutions. Nokia Siemens Networks has unleashed a new architecture for mobile network to accordingly direct mobile broadband capacity dubbed Liquid Radio. The company has also introduced its Flexi Multiradio Antenna System.
This new offering boasts of its ability to meet the requirements of today’s networks with an exceptional baseband pooling technique. This approach is touted to centralize the essential resources needed to carry out processing functions common to each base station in a specific space. This enables users to flawlessly share resources over a wide geographical region.
“Liquids are unconstrained, streaming to fill any gap or space,” commented Thorsten Robrecht, head of Network Systems product management, Nokia Siemens Networks. “In the same way, our Liquid Radio architecture removes the constraints of traditional mobile broadband networks to address the ‘ebb and flow’ of traffic created by users’ movements across the network.”
Based on active antenna technology, the Flexi Multiradio Antenna System precisely merges antenna and radio part in one functional enclosure crafted with dedicated power amplifiers for every antenna element. The active antenna permits beamforming, thereby highlighting a particular radio connection and effortlessly directing it to a specific user along with managing multiple technologies in one single unit. In addition, beamforming functions with other layers of coverage provided by macro, pico and micro site configurations to precisely direct capacity when users need it, offering around 65 percent capacity growth.
“We foresee demand for network capacity increasing to up to 1GB per user per day. Not only will this require substantial network investments, but also a unique combination of base station sites for wide area coverage complemented by Wifi and small, compact micro, pico and femto cells. Nokia Siemens Networks Liquid Radio ensures that existing network investments are fully leveraged and that future investments deliver the return necessary to support today’s pressing challenge of maintaining and transitioning GSM, evolving 3G and introducing LTE and LTE-Advanced, added Thorsten Robrecht.
The Flexi Race is anticipated to be the basic element to develop mext generation active antenna and potential products to render micro and pico cells. It sports extra intelligence and scaling options which are necessary for this type of deployments. The company works in collaboration with operators to release unified heterogeneous networks. This lowers management complexity and delivers connectivity for distinct layers of the network in one unified network and user experience.
Nokia Siemens Networks is anticipated to start deploying this architecture during this year.