Samsung Electronics America introduced its Small Cells for home, enterprise and outdoor service areas to expand network coverage and capacity.
Samsung will showcase its Small Cells at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) Americas 2017 this week.
The new small cells include advanced network technologies using Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS), Licensed Assisted Access (LAA), as well as a cloud managed service for deployment of small cell products.
The company’s first CBRS products for outdoor deployments for offloading LTE traffic via hotspots support up to two CBRS carriers. Samsung’s CBRS products will enter U.S. operator field trials in Q4 2017.
“Our small cell portfolio provides operators and enterprises with new options to address their increasing mobile connectivity needs,” said Imran Akbar, vice president and general manager, Wireless Enterprise, Samsung Electronics America.
Mobile operators can use Samsung small cell to offload LTE traffic and enhance indoor user experiences, while helping create revenue models with private LTE networks.
CBRS Portfolio
CBRS technology allows use of up to 150MHz of shared spectrum in the 3.5GHz spectrum. Samsung’s CBRS solutions are designed for indoor use in homes and enterprises, as well as non-traditional operators, such as cable operators entering wireless or businesses creating private LTE networks.
Samsung will start field trials of CBRS, which supports for Wi-Fi and integrated cellular IoT (CAT-M1) technologies, with U.S. tier one operators in Q4 2017.
LAA Small Cell Solution
LAA offers a cost-effective approach to increasing network capacity and speeds by aggregating the 5GHz unlicensed spectrum with their licensed bands. Samsung’s LAA small cell solution enables the combination of one licensed LTE carrier with two unlicensed LTE carriers for increased capacity in indoor environments.
Samsung will conduct trials for the LAA small cell in early 2018.
Samsung Cloud Managed Service
This saves time and money for the operation, management and monitoring of wireless networks – including a range of small cell and WLAN products such as LTE, CBRS, LAA and Wi-Fi. Operators can manage multiple cellular and Wi-Fi networks in one cloud-based platform, simplifying wireless network administration.
During MWC Americas, Samsung will demonstrate 20MHz carrier in the 3.5GHz band to highlight CBRS’ potential. The demo consists of a delay and interruption-free high-definition video streaming service, enabled by the CBRS small cell, Samsung’s next generation core (vCore), as well as modified Samsung Galaxy S8+ smartphones.
