F-Cell technology from Nokia Bell Labs revolutionizes small cell deployment by cutting wires, costs and time
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* F-Cell re-imagines architecture to support truly "wireless wireless"
networking, removing the power and backhaul wires required by current small
cell deployments
* Massive capacity is deployed on demand with no pre-planning or civil works
required, allowing for drone-based delivery of self-building wireless
networks
* Technology breakthrough wins CTIA Emerging Technology 2016 Award for
transforming Wide Area Networks (5G, 4G and LTE 4.5)
October 3, 2016
Murray Hill, NJ - Nokia Bell Labs announces a breakthrough in small cell
technology that offers greater flexibility, efficiency and optimized deployment
economics to expedite the creation of the high capacity and low latency network
that will form the digital fabric of the future for humans and machines. "F-
Cell" technology eliminates the costly power and backhaul wires and fibers
currently required for small cell installation to enable "drop and forget" small
cell deployments anywhere.
Bell Labs recently demonstrated the world's first drone-based delivery of an F-
Cell to a Nokia office rooftop in Sunnyvale, CA. (captured in photo). The F-Cell
wirelessly self-powered, self-configured and auto-connected to the network and
instantly began to stream high-definition video.
Underlying the F-Cell breakthrough is a re-imagining of the network architecture
to place key functional elements in optimum locations. The F-cell architecture
is comprised of a closed loop, 64-antenna massive MIMO system placed in a
centralized location that is used to form 8 beams to 8 energy autonomous (solar
powered) F-Cells, each of which has been redesigned to require minimum
processing power so that the solar panel is no larger than the cell itself. In
this way, F-Cell technology sustainably solves today's small cell and backhaul
cabling, deployment and expense challenges for service providers and
enterprises.
The architecture supports non-line-of-sight wireless networking in frequency
division duplex (FDD) or time division duplex (TDD) mode, and the parallel
operation of up to 8 individual 20 MHz channels allowing for a system throughput
rate of ~1Gbit/s over existing LTE networks. In future, this architecture will
scale to enable up to tens of Gbit/s using higher spectral bandwidth, new
spectral bands and a larger number antenna arrays.
"F-Cell is a key breakthrough in massively scalable and massively deployable
technology that will allow networks to deliver seemingly infinite capacity,
imperceptible latency and connectivity to trillions of things," said Marcus
Weldon, president of Nokia Bell Labs and Nokia CTO. "Nokia Bell Labs is again
excited to re-invent the future and help drive what we believe will be a
technological revolution, underpinned by the creation of a new digital network
fabric that will transform human existence."
F-Cell advances Nokia's Future X Network vision of 100x capacity growth and
100x reduction in latency, with optimized, facile deployment economics to
explore the human possibility of technology at speed and with the creation of
new value.
In recognition of the breakthrough nature of the architecture and constituent
technologies, F-Cell won the CTIA Emerging Technology (E-Tech) 2016 Award for
cutting-edge mobile products and services transforming Wide Area Networks (5G,
4G and LTE 4.5).
Resources:
* High resolution photo: Drone delivery of F-Cell
* Nokia Bell Labs
* The Future X Network: A Bell Labs Perspective
* (at)BellLabs
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