AirScale baseband solutions

Nokia AirScale baseband plug-in cards

Serve immersive user experiences and advanced enterprise use cases demanding extremely high capacity always with the latest high-performance, energy efficient technology. AirScale baseband provides investment protection combining existing deployed and new cards to seamlessly work together.

The latest AirScale baseband capacity plug-in cards, for high-performance and ultra-performance offer industry leading capabilities. The ultra-performance card doubles the number of supported cells and yet reduces energy consumption by half, offering exponential scalability and enabling larger site configurations.

The latest control card, which supports baseband control-plane functions and high-speed transport connectivity targets 5G evolution, doubling throughput capacity, offering high-speed site connectivity and reducing energy consumption by up to 80%

Nokia AirScale compact native outdoor baseband

Typically, about 80% of a mobile network's total energy consumption relates to base station sites. Around 30% of which relates to the cooling systems used to cool the site equipment. Understandably, eliminating power-hungry cooling systems can significantly reduce both CO2 emissions and energy bills.

As a result, Nokia has pioneered the use of alternatives to forced-air cooling. The AirScale System Module is available in either traditional air-cooled or innovative liquid-cooled versions. Both products provide the same capabilities, features and use the same software.