Huawei releases 3G/2G Software Defined Radio

A Huawei Technologies product story

Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team Oct 1, 2008

Huawei Technologies has announced the launch of the industry's first 3G/2G Software Defined Radio (SDR) Single RAN product.

The base station has been developed in close cooperation with technologists from Vodafone who are exploring how to enhance the customer experience in a more cost-effective and energy-efficient way.

The product enables mobile operators to seamlessly switch from 2G to 3G or use both simultaneously, with the potential to offer total cost of ownership savings to operators.

The development is one of the first products from Huawei and Vodafone's Radio Mobile Innovation Centre based in Madrid, Spain.

Using Huawei's latest Remote Radio Unit, Huawei's Single RAN solution aims to provide greater cost efficiencies for operators in the areas of power consumption, transmission expense, footprint and maintenance costs when compared with traditional BTS solutions.

In either 2G, 3G or mixed mode, the solution is designed to enable operators to make significant CAPEX and OPEX savings because they only need to deploy a single Radio Access Network base station, compared to the costs involved with two independent 2G and 3G networks.

Paving the way for technology evolution as well as protecting operators' network investment, Huawei's Single RAN Solution is also capable of seamlessly migrating to LTE.