Airtel working with Huawei to deploy its 5G transmission equipment

Airtel has been working with Huawei to deploy its 5G techlogy transmission equipment. In last six months, Airtel has so far deployed 100 hops of 5G techlogy transmission equipment of Huawei. Huawei claims its transmission equipment could transmit data on up to 1 gigabit per second (Gbps) speed with 28 megahertz of radio waves to connect one mobile tower with ar. Hops are thing but a pair of microwave antenna installed on different towers, which can upgrade data transmission speed to up to 2 Gbps.

"Bharti India and Huawei jointly started invation for enhanced MIMO solution of 5G microwave. Bharti India n deployed more than 100 hops of enhanced MIMO microwave link based on latest MIMO techlogy developed by Huawei, which will deliver 1 Gbps capacity over single 28 Mhz spectrum, improving backhaul capacity by four times," Huawei said in a statement.

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Standards for multiple input multiple output, MIMO plays a very important role in 5G. In fact, it's considered to be a key enabler and a foundational component of 5G. A MIMO network can increase capacity of a wireless connection without requiring more spectrum.

Huawei said that by adding carrier aggregation techlogy in hops, which is pair of microwave antenna installed on different towers, can upgrade data transmission speed to up to 2 Gbps and save power consumption by 20 per cent, reduce tower rental fee by 50 per cent while achieving transmission distance of up to 13 kilometres.

"After half year's observation, enhanced MIMO link are working stably with commercial traffic in Bharti's live network," Huawei said.

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Huawei's position in India

Huawei has applied for 5G trials in India. However, government is yet to decide amid security concerns raised over Chinese telecom gear maker. Earlier, Huawei reportedly threatened to cease its investment in India ahead of government's plan to begin 5G trials. Till date, Huawei is said to have invested 3.5 billion dollars in India's telecom infrastructure. Of late, concerns have been raised about Huawei's network security and Indian government is reportedly sceptical about allowing Huawei permission for 5G trials in country.

(With PTI inputs)