ベライゾン、エリクソンの米国製5G基地局を納入

エリクソンは本日、Verizonが、テキサスにあるエリクソンの新しいスマート工場から米国で製造された商用5G基地局の最初の受信者であることを発表しました。Ericsson announced today that Verizon is the first recipient of a U.S.-manufactured commercial 5G base station from Ericsson’s new smart factory in Texas. Ericsson back in March said that the first product made at the factory was a millimeter wave (mmWave) Street Macro solution, which is what Verizon received. All of the radio access components are housed in one lightweight enclosure for deployment in city environments. Verizon’s mmWave-based mobile 5G service is available in parts of 35 cities, with plans to be in at least 60 by the end of the year. The company last week reiterated that it’s on track to deploy more than five times as many mmWave base stations this year compared to last. Keeping on during pandemic During the Fierce 5G Blitz event last week, Malady said he’s proud of how Verizon’s engineers, technicians and operations staff have been adapting during the pandemic and acknowledged that a lot of traffic moved out of urban areas and into more rural areas or edges of towns.   Verizon’s strategy to use mmWave was developed years ago and it’s been working relentlessly on both mmWave and 5G to create a groud-breaking type of service, he said. It’s still early days but they’re already seeing in the range of 2 gigabits per second on a cell phone using mmWave. “We don’t see millimeter wave as a detriment at all," he said. "We think the amount of bandwidth that we have there, we’re industry leading. We will leverage that and we’re early days… We’re going to keep building." Verizon has been working on dynamic spectrum sharing (DSS) that will allow it to use LTE spectrum for 5G rather than having to undergo the traditional and time-consuming refarming. “It’s going well,” he said, with plans to deploy DSS throughout the U.S. this year for a national 5G layer.