Private wireless radio solutions
Get deterministic performance from your private wireless network using a carrier grade radio platform
About the solution
The Nokia 4.9G/LTE and 5G radio solution portfolio meets all enterprise indoor and outdoor coverage needs through a wide range of access points operating in the greatest number of frequency bands.
Leveraging Nokia’s renowned performance, you benefit from the most pervasive coverage, greatest capacity and highest performance even in the most challenging radio conditions.
How Nokia Radio solutions benefit your enterprise
Stable throughput, multi-user capacity and latency
Adaptive scheduling - a unique sophisticated capability of a cellular base transceiver station (BTS) - ensures the most efficient utilization of available radio resources taking into consideration radio conditions and the device attributes. It also ensures the required radio link reliability, flexibility and low latency to meet the needs of certain industrial applications. Additionally, software at the BTS also effectively mitigates interference.
Unmatched coverage
A single 3GPP cellular BTS delivers greater geographical coverage - equivalent to the area covered by 10 Wi-Fi access points - thanks to higher RF output power and a wider range of operating frequency bands. Additionally thanks to Nokia's radio/antenna design expertise our radios provide great outdoor coverage in most challenging conditions that can be either 30 times greater than a Wi-Fi access point can cope with.
Highly scalable
Nokia AirScale radios benefit from a distributed BTS architecture. This means baseband processing is centralized, for a robust, resilient and feature-rich solution that offers unmatched scalability and compute and energy resource savings.
Concurrent support for 4.9G/LTE and 5G
AirScale remote radio heads (RRH) and basband units (BBU) can operate in 4.9G/LTE and 5G dual mode to concurrently create 4.9G/LTE and 5G cells. This allows you to use the same radio to support the needs of demanding (5G) and less demanding (4.9G/LTE) use cases in the most economic way.
Support for a wide spectrum of frequency bands
As well as the common frequency bands used by large carriers we have developed radios offering support for frequency bands including CBRS, LTE-U and more to meet the needs of your industry.
Compact form factor simplifies deployment and saves energy
Benefit from light touch installation, through plug-and-play deployment of the indoor and outdoor radios as well as superior performance beyond their size.
Secure
Nokia radio solutions are secured-by design. They are based on Nokia's design for security (DFSEC) framework and are GSMA Network Equipment Security Assurance Scheme (NESAS) compliant - a best practice in the telecom industry.
Carrier grade SW quality
Your enterprise will benefit from the same software we offer to large carriers with additional enterprise-specific features that address your industrial use case needs, including uplink capacity, latency, reliability and more.
Deployment flexibility
Flexible networking allows you to use existing enterprise campus connectivity and augment radio coverage through front/backhaul and antenna options such as integrated or external antennas.
How does it work?
The AirScale radio solution comprises a wide variety of indoor/outdoor radio units (RRHs) - from small cells to massive MIMO antennas connected to high-capacity baseband units (BBUs). Additionally we offer Flexi Zone All in One (AiO) radios for 4.9G/LTE deployments.
Radio solution components
The outdoor/high ceiling indoor micro remote radio head (mRRH) easily handles the challenging radio environments at industrial sites and provides coverage for hangars, airports and other high-ceilinged buildings as well as at large open-pit mines.
- Carrier-grade software quality
- High capacity/performance and indoor penetration
- High RF Bandwidth < 200MHz OBW
- 4T4R, up to 4 x 20W RF power output
- Supports concurrent 4G/5G
- Integrated panel, directional or omni antenna
- Compact form-factors for easy deployment
- Tunable output power
The flexible, compact easy to deploy Indoor pico remote radio head (pRRH) solution provides coverage for indoor industrial facilities such as factory floors and warehouses as well as large venues including shopping malls and conference centers.
- Compact solution for concurrent 4G+5G multi-RAT and multi-band indoor deployment
- Proven plug & play for light touch install
- Best performance vs. size
- Direct fronthaul to BBU
- Up to 4x 250mW Tx output power
- Integrated/external antenna option for deployment flexibility
- Carrier-grade software quality
ASiR sHUB connects the pico remote radio heads (pRRHs) to the baseband unit (BBU) in larger indoor deployment scenarios where direct pRRH – BBU connection is not feasible. It performs CPRI to 10GBase-T conversion and the power supply of pRRHs via PoE++. It supports single-frequency network (SFN) where single cell is created via multiple remote radio heads efficiently utilizing the available radio spectrum.
- 4G/5G CPRI support
- CPRI to 10GBASE-T conversion
- Power injection into ASiR-pRRH via PoE++
- Twelve 10GBASE-T ports for flexible SFN configuration
- Four SFP ports allowing star/chaining topologies
The mmWave outdoor solution provides extreme 5G performance for the most demanding use cases.
- Supports all available mmWave bands
- Small form factor, passively cooled with integrated antenna array
- Common antenna arrays used with other high-power products
- AC or DC Power input supported within single unit
- Provides 60 dBm in 2T2R configuration
Macro remote radio heads (RRH) provide the RF output power and bandwidth required to serve the coverage needs of large outdoor areas, in a compact and energy-efficient form.
- Ideal for use cases where macro cell coverage needed – mines, utilities, airports
- Multi-band RUs
- High RF output power <320W, high energy efficiency
- Support for full-band BW– up to 400 MHz (sub-6 GHz)
- Compact form-factors – easier and faster installation
ASOE baseband unit connects RRHs and controls radio resources via advanced scheduling. It benefits from robust carrier grade software as well as extensive enterprise features that serve the connectivity demands of mission-critical industrial use cases.
- Optimized architecture for small cell radios
- Supports up to 12 radios
- No plug-in units
- Built in resiliency and redundancy
- Low energy consumption
- 5G and 4.9G/LTE concurrent mode support
The Nokia AirScale System Module meets the needs of the most demanding industry use cases requiring the highest capacity and performance through a wide variety of control and high-performance and ultra-performance capacity plug-in units. It can support hundreds of cells and tens of thousands of user equipment connections.
- Common software for 4G and 5G
- Rich selection of enterprise SW features
- High capacity and throughput
- Flexible fronthaul and backhaul connectivity
- Built in resiliency and redundancy
- Low energy consumption
These Integrated/All in One 4G access points, house both the radio unit and baseband processing to deliver a cost-effective solution for use cases requiring reliable 4.9G/LTE connectivity.
- Dedicated capacity for industrial sites, active 600/840 users/cell
- Available in pico, micro and mini-macro form factor
- Macro parity feature and common O&M
- Compact, light with integrated BBU
- Scalability from standalone APs to very large sites
- Proven plug & play for light touch install
- Flexible backhaul, power and sync solutions
