Nokia announced it has achieved the world’s fastest ever 5G speeds in its Over-the-Air (OTA) network. Nokia achieved 5G speeds of up to 4.7 Gbps in tests performed on base station equipment utilising 800 MHz of commercial millimetre wave 5G spectrum and Dual Connectivity (EN-DC) functionality, being deployed in major carriers’ commercial networks. This solution will not only provide subscribers with unrivalled mobile broadband speeds, but also enable carriers to sell various latency-sensitive enterprise services, such as network slicing for mission-critical applications.
The record speed was achieved by combining eight 100 MHz channels of millimetre wave spectrum on the 28 GHz and 39GHz bands, providing 800 MHz of bandwidth, and 40 MHz of LTE spectrum using the EN-DC functionality available on Nokia’s AirScale solution. EN-DC allows devices to connect simultaneously to 5G and LTE networks, transmitting and receiving data across both air-interface technologies. This means devices can achieve a higher throughput than when connecting to 5G or LTE alone. The speeds were achieved on both 5G cloud-based (vRAN) and classic baseband configurations.
Nokia’s AirScale Radio Access solution is an industry-leading, commercial end-to-end 5G solution which enable operators worlwide to capitalise on their 5G spectrum assets. It offers huge capacity scaling and market-leading latency and connectivity by enabling all air-interface technologies on the same radio access equipment.
Stéphane Téral, Chief Analyst at LightCounting Market Research, said: “This is a substantial achievement that reflects the careful workings of a brilliant and subtle team with the deepest appreciation for detail and circumstance. In other words, 8-component carrier aggregation in the millimeter wave domain shows the world that there is more than massive MIMO and open RAN to not only truly deliver the promise of commercial 5G, but also pave the way for future Terahertz system.”
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