Regarding this launch, Thorsten Robrecht, product manager for network management systems at Nokia Siemens Networks, comments: “The Liquid Radio architecture removes the traditional limitations of mobile broadband networks to cope with the 'ebb and flow' of traffic created by users moving through the network.”.
At the heart of Nokia Siemens Networks' Liquid Radio is the ability to respond to the fluid demands of today's networks with a technique known as baseband pooling. This approach centralizes the resources needed to perform common processing functions across all base stations in a given area. Baseband pooling helps achieve more efficient cost allocation of resources across a large geographical area.
The Nokia Siemens Networks Flexi Multiradio Antenna system is based on active antenna technology, combining antenna and radio components into a functional, wraparound system built with dedicated power amplifiers for each antenna element. The active antenna enables beamforming—focusing a particular radio connection and directing it to a specific user—as well as the handling of multiple technologies in a single unit. Along with additional coverage layers offered by macro, pico, and microsite configurations, beamforming allows for precise targeting, delivering up to 65% gain capacity.
Flexi Race represents the next evolutionary step in miniaturization. It will be the building block for the next generation of active antennas and future products for constructing micro and pico cells. Due to its compact size, Flexi Race is equipped with the additional intelligence and scalability options necessary for these types of deployments.
