AirScale baseband solutions

AirScale System Module – indoor and outdoor

Nokia’s baseband products are inherently flexible, facilitating straightforward network evolution and protecting investments. The in-node modularity of the AirScale System Module is key to lean entry and decouples scalability of the computing power for radio access network layers 1, 2, and 3, along with integrated transport functionality. This flexibility is essential for the rapidly changing traffic requirements of new 5G use cases and deployment scenarios.

The AirScale System Module simplifies 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G deployments, streamlines multi-band sites and powers multi-site baseband hotels. It maximizes the benefits of the latest plug-in cards while ensuring low acoustic noise, enhanced serviceability and innovative cooling. 

Additionally, new AirScale modular outdoor baseband solution offers high capacity in a small form factor, enabling even better scalability and deployment flexibility and ensuring long-term evolution.

The AirScale baseband portfolio includes compact outdoor products for both macro and small cells deployments. The Tuuli 12 is a compact TDD and FDD solution suitable for a wide variety of deployments, while the Tuuli 6 is optimized for small cells. These products offer various installation options, making them ideal for small to medium-capacity sites and enabling easy deployment of additional baseband functionality.   

We have expanded our compact outdoor baseband portfolio with new high-capacity variants: Tuuli 24 and Tuuli 26e. These solutions provide twice as much cell capacity while reducing power consumption. They also significantly enhance uplink throughput, which is essential for new mobile services that depend more on uplink performance. Tuuli 24 supports ultra-capacity 4G and 5G, whereas Tuuli 26e provides a versatile choice for simple site modernization as it supports all radio technology generations including 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G.

Nokia’s unique liquid-cooled baseband solution is ideal for baseband hotel sites, significantly reducing the baseband cooling system energy consumption by up to 90 percent compared to active air cooling. It also contributes to an 80 percent reduction in baseband carbon emissions by utilizing waste heat for other purposes such as building heating.