1.4.4 Ericsson Network

The Ericsson network was deployed during Phase-1 and initial testings were done by the AERPAW team. We will support Ericsson network based experiments as part of our Phase-2 General Availability in the Fall 2023. This section provides the details of the Ericsson 5G network and the equipments deployed.      

2.  Ericsson 5G Network Capabilities

AERPAW testbed includes a commercial grade Ericsson 5G NSA network. 

Key Features of Ericsson 5G network:

• 3GPP Release 15 compliant 

• 5G mode: Non-Standalone (NSA)

• 2 sectors, each with a LTE and an NR carriers

• LTE Sector

  • Primarily for Control plane

  • Frequency Band: Band 66A 

  • Channel bandwidth: 5 MHz DL + 5 MHz UL, FDD

  • MIMO

    • 2-sectors each with 2x2 MIMO

  • Transmit power: 5W max per antenna port

  • Antenna gain: 10 dBi

• NR Sector

  • Primarily for Data plane

  • Frequency band: 3.3 - 3.5 GHz (Sub n77/78 band) 

  • Channel bandwidths: 20,100 MHz (40 and 60 MHz support in Phase-3)

  • MIMO 

    • 2-sectors each with 2x2 MIMO

    • 1-sector with 4x4 MIMO (in Phase 3)

  • 120 deg Azimuth beam width 

  • Transmit power: 40W max per antenna port

  • Antenna gain: 15.5 dBi

3.  Ericsson Network Equipments

Detailed description and data sheets of the network elements are given in Section 1.4.4.1.