- Helping operators build an extremely simple, highly efficient and all-band 
collaborating 5G network
- Assisting operators in building an ultimate 5G network with the lowest TCO to 
inspire the digital economy

ZTE Corporation (0763.HK / 000063.SZ), a global leading provider of information 
and communication technology solutions, has released its all-scenario 5G 
UniSite solution and a series of industry-leading innovative products at Mobile 
World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, aiming to help operators build a 
future-oriented 5G network that is extremely simple, highly efficient, and 
all-band collaborated.

- Unique 12TR tri-sector Ultra Broadband Radio(UBR) for simplest site solution

As global 5G commercialization enters the fast lane, the existing FDD bands are 
accelerating the evolution to 5G. However, the factor of highly fragmented 
spectrums has brought about many challenges such as a large amount of radio 
units, limited tower space, and high O&M costs.

ZTE's 12TR UBR is unique in the industry, integrating 1.8GHz and 2.1GHz and 
tri-sector into one box with 12×120W ultra-high output power, which guarantees 
both the experiences of existing RATs and the evolution to 5G.

For the 12TR UBR working with the low-frequency tri-sector 6TR UBR, only two 
radio units are enough to support 5 FDD bands, making the site solution greatly 
simplified. Compared with the traditional solution, the energy consumption can 
be reduced by 30%. In addition, the existing antennas, power modules, batteries 
and other infrastructures can be reused to the maximum extent, further reducing 
TCO.

- Serial high-power UBR for RAN sharing

In the 5G era, RAN sharing has become the most economically feasible choice for 
more and more operators. ZTE's serial UBR products can meet the multi-band, 
high-power, and easy-deployment requirements from RAN sharing.

The serial UBR products support combinations of multiple frequency bands of 
Sub-3GHz and Sub-1GHz, as well as diversified transmission power from 4×120W to 
4×180W. Also, the power resources can be shared among different frequency bands 
on demand.

Among these products, the 1.8GHz + 2.1GHz + 2.6GHz tri-band UBR offers the 
industry's largest transmission power – 4×180W, flexibly supporting 
multi-operator RAN sharing, while the industry's unique 900MHz + 1.8GHz + 
2.1GHz tri-band UBR integrates the three most widely used FDD bands, achieving 
the minimum tower space.

- 128TR extremely-large antenna array AAU for future ultra-large capacity

For the future ultra-large capacity demand in dense urban, ZTE has launched an 
extremely large antenna array AAU in the Sub-6GHz band, in which the number of 
transceiver channels are doubled from the traditional 64TR to 128TR, and the 
number of related antenna elements are doubled from 192 to 384 to achieve 
coverage boost and capacity gain.

Thanks to the innovation of the architecture and algorithm, the 128TR AAU can 
improve the dense urban coverage by 3dB, and more importantly, capable of 32 
downlink data streams and 24 uplink data streams. Therefore, the cell peak 
throughput can reach 10Gbps, and the cell average throughput and the edge user 
experience can also be greatly improved.

- mmWave ultra-large bandwidth AAU and MiCell for more scenarios

For traffic hotspots, site wireless backhaul, enterprises or households fixed 
wireless access(FWA), ZTE has launched an mmWave 8T8R AAU with 1.6GHz 
ultra-large bandwidth, which achieves up to 25Gbps peak throughput. Moreover, 
this product can be flexibly split into two 4T4R cells, enabling more 
additional applications on the same site.

MiCell, ZTE's innovative mmWave distributed micro-cell solution can achieve 
4Gbps throughput per RF head. This solution can meet the ultra-high traffic 
demand of stadiums, exhibitions, transportation hubs and other places, and 
flexibly adapt to the diverse application requirements of ultra-high capacity, 
low latency, and high reliability in B2B scenarios such as smart factories.

Through the innovative architecture design of MiCell, the Intermediate 
Frequency(IF) modules are moved from RF heads to BBU to achieve IF resource 
pooling, which can be dynamically shared by all the RF heads. This architecture 
minimizes the complexity of the RF head, making it much smaller and lighter, 
and power consumption can also be significantly reduced. Thanks to the 
innovations above, MiCell achieves flexible and efficient deployment, and 
smooth coverage expansion on demand.

- iEasylink multi-band backhaul and MBS to improve reliability and distance

As a new member in iEasylink microwave solution, ZTE has launched ultra-compact 
multi-band (1×E-band and 4×normal band) full outdoor unit NR9961 and multi-band 
antenna (3 bands in 1) with Millimeter Beam Stabilization(MBS). This solution 
provides a much more reliable 10Gbps link with simplest hardware, greatly 
simplifying the installation and antenna aligning workload by 67%. Compared 
with traditional antenna, MBS can efficiently improve E-band link distance by 
up to 50%. Moreover, a modem card integrates 4 IF interfaces will also be 
available on NR9000 series modular IDU, which can reduce the power consumption 
by 50%, and increase the utilization of rack.

With the development of the 5G ecosystem, there will be more connections and 
services carried by 5G, driving the network evolution continuously forward. 
ZTE's all-scenario UniSite solution helps operators build an ultimate 5G 
network with the lowest TCO to inspire the digital economy.

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