Ericsson has added seven products to its RAN portfolio ahead of Mobile World Congress next week, with a heavy focus on energy efficiency claims. A highlight of the launch was a new dual-band Radio 4490, which is the lightest Ericsson product in its class at 24 kilograms, and consumers 25% less power than its predecessor. The radio/antenna unit can be connected directly to an Ericsson Cloud-RAN via an evolved packet switched fronthaul, or to an existing Ericsson conventional baseband via either traditional or evolved fronthaul. Of course, Ericsson is not supporting Open RAN fronthaul so the radio would not connect to a non-Ericsson baseband. The 4T4R unit supports common combinations of midband spectrum such as 2.1 GHz, 1.8 GHz and…