Samsung and Virgin Media O2 Deploy Multiple Live 4G and 5G Sites
Corporations develop their 4G/5G collaboration on reside community within the U.Ok., progressing from lab to discipline
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. and Virgin Media O2 introduced at this time the businesses have efficiently accomplished the deployment of a number of reside 4G and 5G websites within the U.Ok., advancing the subsequent section of their collaboration. In tandem with this deployment, the businesses additionally accomplished the primary 5G information name on Virgin Media O2’s industrial 5G community, utilizing the websites.
Discipline trials have been collectively carried out on the websites—situated in Tamworth and the Peak District, England—because the begin of this yr. They adopted successful lab tests performed in October 2021, validating the potential and efficiency of Samsung’s 4G and 5G options on Virgin Media O2’s industrial community.
As well as, these discipline checks demonstrated interoperability between Virgin Media O2’s 2G/3G/4G networks and Samsung’s newest 4G and 5G options, and validated use of Samsung’s Dynamic Spectrum Sharing (DSS) capabilities, ought to they be required.
Samsung offered its newest community options for trials—together with 4G radios, 5G Huge MIMO radios and baseband items. The options cowl a variety of Virgin Media O2’s spectrum holdings, from low- to mid-band (800MHz, 2.1GHz and three.5GHz). Particularly, Samsung delivered its 5G 64T64R Huge MIMO radios for the three.5GHz spectrum, a serious 5G spectrum band for the operator’s community.
Samsung’s 5G 64T64R Huge MIMO radios are commercially deployed on a big scale in world markets, at the moment offering cellular service to tens of millions of consumers. This answer, together with Samsung’s baseband unit, will ship improved protection and better information capability to boost 5G buyer cellular experiences.
The Samsung radio answer used for this trial will also be O-RAN compliant with some configuration modifications and extra help, making it able to leverage the a number of advantages of the brand new know-how sooner or later.
“Samsung is happy to increase our community collaboration with Virgin Media O2 within the U.Ok., advancing from lab trials to now delivering 4G and 5G in industrial networks out within the discipline,” mentioned Francis BJ Chun, President and CEO, Samsung Electronics U.Ok. “We sit up for enjoying a serious a part of the diversification of the community tools provide chain within the U.Ok. market.”
“We’re happy to construct on our earlier collaboration with Samsung, delivering one other 5G milestone in our push to creating Open RAN applied sciences,” mentioned Jeanie York, Chief Expertise Officer at Virgin Media O2. “We are going to proceed our collaborative efforts with Samsung to discover the probabilities of 5G and push the know-how additional to ship superior end-user experiences for our prospects.”
Open RAN know-how has been on the forefront of Virgin Media O2’s community infrastructure technique for over two years, with its first trials introduced in early 2020.
Samsung Networks has pioneered the profitable supply of 5G end-to-end options together with chipsets, radios, and core. Via ongoing analysis and improvement, Samsung drives the business to advance 5G networks with its market-leading product portfolio from absolutely virtualized RAN and Core to non-public community options and AI-powered automation instruments. The corporate is at the moment offering community options to cellular operators that ship connectivity to a whole lot of tens of millions of customers all over the world.
