Plasma silicon antenna cuts mmWave 5G basestation costs in half
Based on the company’s patented Plasma Silicon technology, the antenna reduces the cost of a 5G base station by up to 50 percent by eliminating phase shifters, reducing and consolidating amplification and reducing computation.
The PSiAN has no moving parts and is dynamically reconfigurable as it forms and steers beams. The technology does not need calibration and can handle practically unlimited power, having already been to tested up to 40-W. The Plasma Silicon-based products are smaller, lighter and use less power than equivalent products using current technology. The PSiAN also has an omni mode, when it draws no power at all.
The company has shown the value of the technology in a variety of scenarios, including a 360-degree field of view beam forming and steering 28-GHz 5-W PSiAN, useful for pole mounted small cells, indoor small cells, or on a vehicle and a high power, long range, low loss small cell base station antenna for standalone and MIMO 5G, Fixed Wireless Access (FWA), and Connected Vehicle applications. These devices can also be stacked to form and steer beams in two dimensions (azimuth and elevation), or to form multiple beams and MIMO applications.
“Time after time we hear that cost and range are the biggest challenges facing mmWave 5G projects,” said Paul Phillipson CEO of Plasma Antennas. “Our patented Plasma Silicon technology provides a solution which answers both of these problems simultaneously, delivering a huge leap forward in performance and power consumption, and dramatically impacting the economics of future 5G networks.”
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