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Qualcomm Dragonwing™
MBB Gen 4 Platform
MBB4

The Dragonwing MBB Gen 4 Platform, featuring the Qualcomm® X85 5G ModemRF, is the future of mobile broadband with leading 5G performance, seamless Wi-Fi and Bluetooth® integration, and enhanced user experiences. It is the world's first 5G Advanced platform for Mobile Broadband applications, bringing an AI-enhanced 5G Advanced platform, AI-enhanced traffic classification, and high-performance for carrier cloud-based control capabilities, revolutionizing mobile broadband solutions.

Featuring the Qualcomm X85 5G Modem-RF, the Dragonwing MBB Gen 4 Platform is at the forefront of mobile broadband innovation, delivering leading 5G performance, seamless connectivity, and enhanced user experiences for both individuals and businesses. It introduces the world's first 5G Advanced platform, offering category-defining downlink speeds of up to 12.5 Gbps with unrivaled coverage and long-range performance.

The platform also features AI-enhanced traffic classification, a low-power design, and industry-leading Wi-Fi connectivi...

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Featured DocumentsQualcomm Dragonwing Mobile Broadband (MBB) Gen 4 Platform Product Brief

Benefits

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Revolutionary Qualcomm X85 Modem-RF:
This cutting-edge modem-RF solution, integrated with on-chip AI, delivers unparalleled 5G performance. It is the world's first 5G-Advanced MBB platform, offering AI-enhanced capabilities for personalized, secure, and enriching experiences, along with unrivaled coverage and long-range performance.
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Unmatched platform innovation:
The most dynamic, feature-rich MBB platform is designed for global deployment. It boasts a powerful on-board processor for high-performance network management and feature-rich applications, comprehensive connectivity and integration solutions for challenging environments, and energy efficiency to meet the most stringent requirements.
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Next-Gen Connectivity
Dragonwing MBB Gen 4 Platform delivers next-generation wireless performance through tri-band Wi-Fi 7 with High Band Simultaneous Multi-Link, enabling ultra-low latency and multi-gigabit throughput even in congested environments. It supports Bluetooth 5.4, offering enhanced reliability, increased broadcast capacity, and improved power efficiency for always-connected peripherals. These wireless technologies are further strengthened by intelligent traffic steering and adaptive signal optimization, ensuring seamless and resilient connectivity across mobile, home, and enterprise use cases.

Features

World’s 1st 5G Adv MBB platform, featuring the Qualcomm X85 5G Modem​

  • Speeds
  • World’s 1st MBB offering up to 12.5 Gbps DL (peak speed, FR1 + FR2)
  • 10+Gbps peak DL (FR1), 3.5 Gbps peak UL
  • Introduces key new capabilities to the MBB portfolio:
  • 1st MBB to support Dual SIM Dual Active (DSDA), ideal for aggregation / reliability / carrier remote mgmt
  • 1st time QC supporting NB NTN for satellite communication​

AI-enhanced 5G Modem capabilities​

  • Network Traffic Coordination: orchestrates and coordinates AI workloads at the edge​ of the cellular network​
  • Qualcomm® 5G AI Suite w/AI-Enhanced traffic prioritization: ​
    • Dynamic gaming traffic prioritization and AI-enhanced OTT-voice traffic prioritization ​
    • Dedicated AI (tensor) HW accelerator w/30% faster AI inference ​
  • Dynamic multi-antenna 8Rx/6Rx/4Rx management for more robust coverage and efficient power handling​
  • On-device advanced Smart Network Signaling (SNS) for bad/weak cell avoidance, data stall detection and enhanced low latency service

Unrivaled coverage and long-range performance​

  • Up to 14km long-range mmWave performance ​

Power profile optimized for MBB

  • 50% lower power profile than previous generation Modem-RF when implemented in mobile hotspot applications

Integrated soft AP featuring Qualcomm Wi-Fi 7 technology

  • Peak Speed: 5.8 Gbps, Tri-Band Wi-Fi 7
  • 320MHz support (or paired 160MHz channels)
  • HBS multi-link technology, which aggregates traffic on 5GHz and 6GHz channels to deliver extremely high throughput and low latency
  • Bluetooth® 5.4

Carrier cloud-based control

  • Expanded telemetry control and dashboard for device management
  • Framework for diagnostic log collection and uploading to cloud server
  • Self-heal framework for anomaly/fault detection and platform self-recovery
Specifications
Cellular Modem-RF
Modem Name
Qualcomm® X85 5G Modem-RF System
Peak Download Speed
12.5 Gbps
Peak Upload Speed
3.7 Gbps
Cellular Modem-RF Specs
400 MHz bandwidth (mmWave), 8 carriers (mmWave), 800 MHz bandwidth (mmWave), 2x2 MIMO (mmWave), 4x4 MIMO (Sub-6)
Performance Enhancement Technologies
Qualcomm® 5G Ultra-Low Latency Suite, Qualcomm® 5G AI Suite, Dual-layer polarization in downlink and uplink (mmWave), Beam tracking (mmWave), Beam steering (mmWave), Beam forming (mmWave), Qualcomm® Smart Transmit™ Gen 4 technology, Qualcomm® 5G PowerSave Gen 4, Wide Scan Angle (mmWave), Qualcomm® 5G RF Sensing Suite, Qualcomm Dynamic Antenna Steering Gen 2, Qualcomm® 5G AI Processor
Cellular Technology
5G NR, Dynamic Spectrum Sharing (DSS), SA (standalone), NSA (non-standalone), DSDA, sub-6 carrier aggregation (FDD-FDD), sub-6 carrier aggregation (TDD-TDD), 5G FDD, 5G TDD, sub-6 carrier aggregation (FDD-TDD), mmWave-sub6 aggregation, 1024-QAM sub-6, 3GPP Release 17, 3GPP Release 18
Satellite Communications
NB-IoT Non-Terrestrial Networks
Wi-Fi
Generation
Wi-Fi 4, Wi-Fi 5, Wi-Fi 6, Wi-Fi 6E, Wi-Fi 7
Standards
802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11n, 802.11ac, 802.11a, 802.11ax, 802.11be
Spectral Bands
6 GHz, 5 GHz, 2.4 GHz
Maximum Band Configuration
Tri-band
Spatial Streams
up to 12
Peak QAM
up to 4K QAM
Encryption
AES-CCMP, AES-GCMP
Security
WPA3 Enhanced Open, 802.11i security, PRNG, TKIP, WAPI1, WAPI2, WEP, WPA2, WPA3 Easy Connect, WPA3 Enterprise, WPA3 Personal, WPS
Features
OFDMA (UL/DL), MU-MIMO (UL/DL), Simultaneous & Alternating Multi Link, Adaptive Interference Puncturing
Qualcomm® Artificial Intelligence (AI) Engine
Qualcomm® Hexagon™ Processor Name
Qualcomm® Hexagon™
Tera Operations Per Second (TOPS)
40 TOPS
Development Software
Development Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Qualcomm® AI Stack

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