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Highly integrated, powerful, and power efficient design for Open RAN Radio Units

With the accelerated growth in mobile data traffic, together with industry transition to Open and Virtualized Networks (O-RAN and vRAN), network operators are seeking platforms that address user experience demands of their subscribers, while streamlining deployments and bringing down total cost of ownership. The Qualcomm Dragonwing™ QRU100 Platform delivers a high-performance, O-RAN compliant, energy-efficient 5G solution for Massive MIMO Radio Units to address modern operator demands.

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Comprehensive, High-Performance Modem RF Solution for Massive MIMO Radio Units

The Qualcomm Dragonwing™ QRU100 Platform is designed for superior radio performance, including high-power, high-capacity operation. The platform features a comprehensive 5G ModemRF System, including baseband and transceiver modules. This high-performance and power-efficient solution supports Massive MIMO capabilities, with a configuration of up to 64T64R to improve network coverage and capacity.

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O-RAN Compliant Design with Architectures Flexibility

The Qualcomm Dragonwing™ QRU100 Platform is an O-RAN compliant solution that supports a range of baseband functions and future enhancements, including uplink performance improvement.

This flexibility provides OEMs and operators with deployment versatility and facilitates scalable and cost-effective 5G RAN networks. This will provide operators with tremendous flexibility to deploy unprecedented peak speeds with available spectrum resources.

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Advanced Cellular Technologies

The Qualcomm Dragonwing™ QRU100 Platform applies leading 5G mobile expertise to support feature-rich cellular infrastructure that combines powerful performance with leading power efficiency. It supports advanced features that include multi-operator RAN sharing, dynamic spectrum sharing (DSS), and digital beamforming. This platform supports Massive MIMO scalable for 64TR and 32TR configurations.

Furthermore, the platform offers a highly optimized and flexible Crest Factor Reduction (CFR)/Digital Pre-Distortion (DPD) architecture, delivering an end-to-end, complete DPD solution to address various Power Amplifier (GaN and LDMOS) characteristics and challenges, as well as multiple carriers in both contiguous and non-contiguous scenarios

Features

  • Multi-operator RAN sharing 
  • Dynamic spectrum sharing (DSS)
  • Digital beamforming • Supports all O-RAN 7.x split functions and is compatible with future split (for example, 7.3)
  • Maximum modulation of DL 1024 QAM, UL 256 QAM 
  • RU + RFIC Architecture • Scalable solution for 64T64R and 32T32R
  • 16 layers
  • Bandwidth FR1 of 400MHz 
  • Advanced DPD end-to-end solution, with highly optimized and flexible architecture
  • Integrated 300 Gbps Ethernet 
  • Software upgradable to support ULPI and other enhancements
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