Can you recommend a substitute for the Ericsson Fronthaul 6000 series?
Time after time, we get inquiries from our customers about whether we have an alternative to the Ericsson Fronthaul 6000 solution. We can proudly say that – Yes, we do! EDGE Optical Solutions offers customers a fully passive 5G optical fronthaul solution. This solution can be chosen as an alternative to the Ericsson fronthaul 6000 system, which currently contains:
- •Fronthaul 6000 passive – provides DWDM filters for 24 services over a single fiber;
- •Fronthaul 6000 active – provides transponders and management;
- •Fronthaul 6000 wireless – provides wireless fronthaul.
EDGE Optical solutions alternative for Ericsson fronthaul 6000 system includes:
- •Double Fiber Passive CWDM;
- •Single Fiber Passive CWDM;
- •Double Fiber Passive Hybrid WDM;
- •Single Fiber Passive Hybrid WDM;
- •100G and 40G Optical Junction boxes.
In More detail about each solution, you can read here:
EDGE Optical solutions 5G Fronthaul portfolio
Additionally, EDGE Optical Solutions offers eCPRI Optical Transceivers for 5G fronthaul applications. These transceivers are fully compatible with Ericsson Base Station and Remote Radio units.
EDGE Optical solution fronthaul transceivers:
- •10GFH-SFP-300 – 10Gbps, 850nm, up to 300m, Single Mode Fiber (SMF);
- •10GFH-SFP-10 – 10Gbps, 1310nm, up to 10km, Single Mode Fiber (SMF);
- •10GFH-SFP-40 – 10Gbps, 1310nm, up to 40km, Single Mode Fiber (SMF);
- •10GFH-SFP-80 – 10Gbps, 1310nm, up to 80km, Single Mode Fiber (SMF);
EDGE Optical solution Ericsson compatible Optical Transceiver portfolio, you can view in detail here:
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5G Fronthaul Passive WDM Mux/Demux Solutions
5G Fronthaul WDM technology will be important as global 5G networks scale and eventually new network topologies become popular such as 5G C-RAN (centralized RAN). 5G Mobile Networks necessitates massive investment in much denser radio networks and many new cells, which require the deployment of new optical CPRI fronthaul networks. Let’s take a step back and consider what makes 5G so unique? 5G mobile networks offer higher quality of service, lower latency, and greater bandwidth, which improves user experience and opens up a variety of new use cases. For 5G Fronthaul WDM – smart usage of colored eCPRI 25G optical transceivers and passive WDM technologies can achieve great savings and maximum efficiency of existing fibers. Mixture of colored transceivers and Passive WDM Technology is excellent choice, as it’s flexible, enables many network topologies, it’s protocol and bit rate agnostic and eliminates need for independent power supplies. Passive WDM can help not only in fronthaul and backhaul in 5G, but also has a great potential in industrial class networks used in such industries as Manufacturing, Oil & Gas, Mining, Power etc.
25G Fronthaul CWDM SFP28 Transceivers
5G Mobile Networks use much higher radio frequency bands, Massive MIMO and Beamforming technologies which require bringing Remote Radio Unit (RRU) closer to the end users and therefore much denser RRU distribution. Centralized Radio Access Networks (CRAN) are favored by many Mobile Network Architects, where remote BBU farms are built in centralized equipment rooms from where services are provided to many RRUs. Such approach fastens the 5G roll-out, reduces space requirements and rental costs in remote sites, improves maintenance and significantly simplifies transport network architecture. Passive CWDM (Coarse Wavelength Division Multiplexing) is a cost efficient approach which can be used in 5G CRAN design to interconnect BBU farms to RRUs. Passive CWDM solution consists of colored optical transceivers which are used together with CWDM filters. CWDM eCPRI 25G SFP28 optical transceivers use a CWDM channel plan defined by ITU-T G.694.2 (For 25G eCPRI it’s possible to use 12 from 18 ITU-T defined wavelengths with 20 nm spacing) and with help of passive CWDM filters we can aggregate/separate different wavelength (nm) connections: With Passive CWDM approach we can design up to 12 Channel CWDM eCPRI double fiber connection or up to 6 Channel CWDM eCPRI single fiber connection between BBU farm and RRU units. Double Fiber CWDM eCPRI Single Fiber CWDM eCPRI