China Unicom Beijing taps Huawei for rural 5G boost
China Unicom Beijing labored with Huawei to deploy greater than 1,000 next-generation lively antenna models (AAUs) at rural 5G websites, a part of the operator’s technique to spice up protection and efficiency exterior city areas.
Huawei claimed the community elevated protection 40 per cent and generated 38 per cent extra visitors per website. It additionally elevated information charges by 10 per cent and decreased vitality consumption by 5 per cent in contrast with the earlier model
The MetaAAUs are Huawei’s third-generation 5G AAU and make use of its “extreme-large antenna array to double the dimensions of arrays in contrast with the previous-generation AAU”, it acknowledged.
Protection is boosted “as a result of channel beams are narrower and vitality is extra targeted” it added.
China Unicom Beijing defined it used the models to realize 2022 5G development targets for small cities and rural areas.
Fan Liqun, head of China Unicom Beijing’s 5G co-construction and sharing work crew, acknowledged MetaAAUs are an important a part of its digital village technique. “We now have explored varied eventualities primarily based on excessive bandwidth and iteratively adopted progressive Large MIMO applied sciences to make sure the very best 5G and digital expertise for our prospects.”
In November 2021, Huawei launched MetaAAUs that includes 384 antenna components, twice as many as a standard AAU.
