Ericsson premium 5G software toolkit

Ericsson has launched a software toolkit to strengthen 5G Standalone network capabilities and enable premium services with differentiated connectivity. The toolkit is designed for communications service providers (CSPs) to deliver use cases with high requirements on throughput, reliability and latency at agreed performance levels. Examples of these are lag-free mobile cloud gaming, videoconferencing, live broadcasting, remote-controlled machines/vehicles, public safety services and future XR applications.

The growth of advanced and diverse 5G use cases puts higher requirements on the network to deliver differentiated performance levels. The innovative software supports a three-pronged approach: enabling high performance for mobile broadband services; offering differentiated experiences for new and advanced consumer and enterprise use cases; and, with these two building blocks, creating programmable network performance on demand through network APIs.

The software toolkit offers enhanced massive MIMO software algorithms for channel-aware multi-user MIMO pairing and optimal beamforming selection based on user velocity. These boost capacity in mid-band deployments with up to 10% incremental user throughput gain in high load, allowing for smooth introduction of new services that require high reliability and low latency.

It also features RAN slicing advancements with intent-based automation for automated radio resource partitioning and rate and delay control scheduling to meet target delivery on a 1 ms basis. Efficient service-level agreement (SLA) fulfilment is enabled by real-time automation.

The toolkit offers the consistent low-latency capabilities of time-critical communication, with uplink configured grant and L4S (Low Latency, Low Loss, Scalable Throughput) for a high quality of experience even during network congestion and under poor radio conditions. This includes up to 90 ms latency improvements in high load scenarios.

A data boost upsell and L4S support in 5G Core allow users to purchase a boost on top of their existing subscription, as well as new capabilities to enable and monetise L4S for selected subscription packages.