Small cells

Seamless coverage and high performance are essential for a great mobile user experience. Small cell solutions can boost both coverage and capacity where the environment hinders the performance of the radio network.

With one of the industry’s most comprehensive small cell portfolios, Nokia addresses a wide range of deployment  scenarios—from indoor coverage to large-scale urban densification.

With up to 80% of mobile traffic originating indoors, providing reliable and high-performance indoor coverage is vital. Here, compact and easy to deploy indoor small cells can be used to deliver in-building coverage and capacity, for offices, retail malls and enterprises. For smaller building, such as home offices, femtocell solutions are easy-to-deploy and deliver great performance.

For outdoor environments, small cells are ideal for boosting capacity in busy locations, complementing macro network coverage. Equally, they can provide coverage in locations where the built environment obstructs coverage from the macro network, such as street-canyons. 

Additionally, mmWave bands, with their high bandwidth and data rates, support demanding 5G applications like VR, AR and gaming. They are crucial for future innovations such as smart cities and IoT. mmWave solutions are not limited to just hot-spots but can also service Fixed Wireless Access and are future-ready for sensing networks.