Hard on the heels of Ericsson’s launch of compact new 5G Massive MIMO units, Samsung is boasting of a 30% network throughput boost from its latest enhancement for its own Massive MIMO platform.
The new technology is called Mobility Enhancer, and the Korean vendor says it uses
advanced signal processing and AI to improve accuracy of beamforming from Samsung’s Massive MIMO antenna arrays to users who are moving around.
The 30% performance claim came from a test run on Samsung’s own testbed, involving a walking user. Samsung aims to add the new capability to its Massive MIMO radios via a software upgrade later this year.
Earlier this year, Samsung showed off its array antenna beamforming technology for millimeter wave 5G spectrum, in a demonstration of 5G-capable vehicle control units conducted at the Consumer Electronics Show.
It offers Massive MIMO radio products globally for a range of bands including 3.5 GHz, the mainstay of many operators’ initial 5G roll-outs, and it has a particular focus on US-centric bands, since the USA is its most successful 5G market, along with its home country. So it supports 2.5 GHz, which is central to T-Mobile USA’s 5G capacity enhancement after acquiring the spectrum along with Sprint; as well as the CBRS spectrum in licensed and shared modes.