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CTOnews.com, December 8, Qualcomm announced on December 6 the launch of Qualcomm Compact Macro Base Station 5G RAN platform to meet the needs of the fast-growing outdoor mobile and fixed wireless access (FWA) infrastructure for simplicity, high performance, cost efficiency and energy efficiency.

According to the introduction below, in order to meet the requirements of cost priority and coverage index for wide-area millimeter wave coverage, the new platform combines the Qualcomm FSM 5G RAN platform for small base stations to launch a macro base station antenna module that supports 256antenna units, which can provide the equivalent omni-directional radiation power (EIRP) of 60dBm and the spectrum that supports 1GHz bandwidth.

This combination combines a small base station platform for simplified design with a macro base station millimeter wave antenna array for high power and long distance coverage, thus promoting the development of new compact millimeter wave macro base stations with attractive prices.

The new Qualcomm Compact Macro Base Station 5G RAN platform provides long-distance performance enhancement for compact macro base station products, which more than doubles the coverage of small base stations designed with Qualcomm FSM 5G RAN platform, significantly reducing the number of base stations required for wide area coverage. In addition, by driving the evolution of Qualcomm's FSM 5G RAN platform for small base stations, this compact macro base station solution addresses the energy efficiency, size, and cost complexity common in similar solutions, making deployment easier.

It is worth mentioning that the solution is designed to drive the growth of millimeter wave infrastructure deployment by significantly reducing the challenge of providing wide area coverage and data capacity. Compared with similar high-power millimeter wave macro station solutions, compact macro base stations can reduce base station equipment costs by up to 50% in specific coverage areas, and the features they support will play an important role in key use cases, including:

Mobile scenario: millimeter wave is extremely resilient to network congestion, making it an ideal choice to provide reliable, fast response and high-speed services to users, even in crowded outdoor urban areas. By reducing the infrastructure cost of high-performance outdoor millimeter wave base stations, mobile network operators can break through wireless performance more cost-effectively than ever before.

Fixed wireless access (wireless optical fiber): the number of locations such as homes, offices, and coffee shops that a single outdoor base station can connect to, is a key aspect of fixed wireless access (FWA). With a high-value combination of long-distance performance and cost efficiency, the Qualcomm Compact Macro Base Station 5G RAN platform meets a number of key KPI, providing high-capacity wireless broadband access for homes and businesses in urban, suburban and rural areas.

CTOnews.com has learned that the new Qualcomm Compact Macro Base Station 5G RAN platform is expected to be available to customers in the first quarter of 2023.

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