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Underlying the F-Cell breakthrough is a re-imagining
of the network architecture to place key functional
elements in optimum locations. The F-cell architecture is
comprised of a closed loop, 64-antenna massive MIMO
system placed in a centralized location that is used to
form 8 beams to 8 energy autonomous (solar powered)
F-Cells, each of which has been redesigned to require
minimum processing power so that the solar panel is no
larger than the cell itself. In this way, F-Cell technology
sustainably solves today’s small cell and backhaul cabling,
deployment and expense challenges for service providers
and enterprises.
The architecture supports non-line-of-sight wireless
networking in frequency division duplex (FDD) or time
division duplex (TDD) mode, and the parallel operation of
up to 8 individual 20 MHz channels allowing for a system
throughput rate of ~1Gbit/s over existing LTE networks. In
future, this architecture will scale to enable up to tens of
Gbit/s using higher spectral bandwidth, new spectral bands
and a larger number antenna arrays.
“F-Cell is a key breakthrough in massively scalable and
massively deployable technology that will allow networks
to deliver seemingly infinite capacity, imperceptible latency
and connectivity to trillions of things,” said Marcus Weldon,
president of Nokia Bell Labs and Nokia CTO. “Nokia Bell
Labs is again excited to re-invent the future and help
drive what we believe will be a technological revolution,
underpinned by the creation of a new digital network fabric
that will transform human existence.”
F-Cell advances Nokia’s Future X Network vision of 100x
capacity growth and 100x reduction in latency, with
optimized, facile deployment economics to explore the
human possibility of technology at speed and with the
creation of new value.
In recognition of the breakthrough nature of the architecture
and constituent technologies, F-Cell won the CTIA Emerging
Technology (E-Tech) 2016 Award for cutting-edge mobile
products and services transforming Wide Area Networks
(5G, 4G and LTE 4.5).
BAE Systems welcomed the
announcement by the Right
Honourable Sir Michael Fallon MP,
Secretary of State for Defence, of
nearly £1.3 billion of funding for the
Successor programme.
The programme will deliver four new
submarines for the Royal Navy and
will replace the current Vanguard
class, with the first submarine
entering service in the early 2030s.
The UK Ministry of Defence (MOD)
funding announced today will cover
initial manufacturing work, which will start next week, on the
first of the Trident ballistic-missile-carrying submarines. It will
also enable further procurement of long lead items in addition
to ongoing redevelopment of the facilities and infrastructure
required to build the submarines at BAE Systems’ site in
Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria.
Comparable in size to the Vanguard class submarines, the
next generation of nuclear deterrent submarine is widely
considered to be one of the world’s most complex engineering
UK Government commits 1.3 billion funding for Successor
Submarine programme
challenges.
Technological
advances, threat changes, new
methods of design and production
mean the new submarines will be a
completely new design.
Defence Secretary Michael Fallon
said: “Britain’s ballistic missile
submarines are the ultimate
guarantee of our nation’s safety –
we use them every day to deter the
most extreme threats. We cannot
know what new dangers we might
face in the 2030s, 2040s and 2050s
so we are acting now to replace them.”
Tony Johns, Managing Director of BAE Systems Submarines,
added: “This additional financial investment by the MOD
is an expression of confidence in our ability to build these
sophisticated vessels. We have been designing the new
class of submarine for more than five years and thanks to
the maturity of our design, we’re now in a position to start
production on the date we set back in 2011. This is a terrific
achievement and I pay tribute to all those who have
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