Huawei Green Antenna Series Wins GSMA GLOMO Award for "Best Mobile Network Infrastructure"

Energy savings: Antennas have the unique role in networks of connecting base station equipment wirelessly over the air to end user devices. End-to-end antenna efficiency has a great influence on base station energy consumption. Innovative antenna designs, materials and manufacturing technologies are used to minimize energy losses.  Network energy consumption and OPEX can be thereby reduced.

Green deployment: Network evolution drives the deployment of new sites and the upgrade of existing sites. Installing new antennas, or replacing old antennas , implies repeated resource consumption during site construction. Moreover, antenna replacement causes an actual antenna life cycle to be shorter than the designed one, which results in a waste of resources. Therefore, antenna solutions, which can enable simplified deployment and maximized antenna life cycles, are critical to enabling efficient green network construction and evolution.

Green manufacturing: First, green manufacturing minimizes the use of non-environmentally friendly materials in products, to reduce pollution during manufacturing as well as the impact on the environment after the end of the product life cycle. Second, energy efficient and environmentally clean manufacturing processes replace traditional high energy consumption and high-pollution antenna manufacturing processes.

Maximized energy savings: The industry unique SDIF technology brings energy efficiency and performance of antennas to a new level. The integrated feeding and cable-free design greatly reduces energy losses and improves antenna energy efficiency up to 25%. In addition, unique Meta lens technology effectively concentrates RF energy projection into the target coverage area and reduces energy dissipation in other unwanted areas, such as adjacent sectors. This ultimate energy efficiency feature can improve coverage and traffic while maintaining the same energy consumption, as well as save energy consumption while maintaining the same network performance. In both cases, uplink performance directly benefits from the high antenna efficiency.

Reduced deployment costs: Innovative FreSIP (Frequency Selective Isolating and Penetrating) and Folding Array technologies are used to improve antenna integration and to reduce the number of boxes and the load at sites, saving deployment costs. BladeAAU integrates massive MIMO with passive antennas. Operators can use BladeAAU to replace existing 4G antennas, enabling 4G and 5G massive MIMO co-deployment and reducing OPEX. X2 antenna doubles the configuration capability while keeping the same size, helping operators achieve cost efficient network evolution without requiring site reconstruction or additional reinforcements. In addition, the Green Antenna series does not require replacement of other RAN equipment, which greatly protects the existing investments of operators.

Green environmentally sustainable manufacturing processes: The innovative SDIF technology replaces PCB architectures traditionally used in antennas with metal stripline technology and removes the need for cables inside antennas, solder joints and screws by 80%, greatly reducing manufacturing and recycling pollution. Moreover, laser welding technology, which uses an industry unique high-precision automated manufacturing process, avoids the pollution and energy consumption of electroplating and soldering traditionally used in antenna manufacturing.