CommScope Era all-digital C-RAN antenna system

CommScope Era is an all-digital C-RAN antenna system that leverages wireless operators’ initiatives to centralise and virtualise baseband radio assets. Era enables operators to deploy a centralised headend that serves multiple buildings, or even to tap capacity from the operator’s existing centralised C-RAN hubs. Era’s Wide-area Integration Node (WIN) resides in the C-RAN hub and routes baseband capacity to a distribution point within the served building or campus. Era allocates baseband capacity where it is needed while reducing the amount of on-site head-end equipment and the amount of fibre needed for signal transport by up to 90%.

Capacity reallocation, soft resectorisation, system set-up and diagnostics are all software functions in Era, able to be changed with a few clicks of a mouse. Era also transports Gigabit Ethernet backhaul to each remote node, which can be used for separate Wi-Fi networks, IP security systems or to support a small cell overlay needed for future network expansion. And Era supports interleaved MIMO using patented technology that can offer up to 80% of collocated MIMO speeds over a SISO infrastructure.