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Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) has officially inaugurated its Global
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Center in
Rosersberg, Sweden. The purpose-built, highly scalable and
sustainable facility reflects Ericsson’s ongoing commitment to
R&D investment both in Sweden and globally. The center also
represents an important step in the company’s ongoing ICT
transformation journey. The Rosersberg site, which covers
20,000 square meters, is the first purpose-built Ericsson
Global ICT Center to be inaugurated in Sweden. It follows
the opening of the Global ICT Center in Linköping, Sweden
in September 2014, which was built adjacent to an existing
Ericsson facility. In addition to the two facilities in Sweden,
Ericsson will open a Global ICT Center in Montreal, Canada
in the second quarter of 2016. The Global ICT Centers allow
Ericsson to emulate an operator’s mobile network and to test
new solutions as if they were running on a live network. In
the near future, Ericsson’s customers will be able to connect
remotely for interoperability testing, trials, early access
Latest customer marks major milestone for the innovative
indoor small cell solution, commercially shipping since the
fourth quarter in 2014 - 44 percent in Europe, Middle East &
Africa, 39 percent of Radio Dot System operators are in Asia
Pacific Region,17 percent in North and South America
77 percent of Radio Dot Systems have gone live with LTE
- almost 10 percent of those support dual-mode LTE and
WCDMA on the same Dots.
About 90 percent of our time is spent indoors. However,
results from an Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) ConsumerLab
survey reveal that only three in 10 smartphone users find
indoor voice quality, coverage and reliability to be good. The
challenge will be exacerbated by the 11 times growth in
smartphone traffic forecast from 2015 to 2021, with around
90 percent of mobile data traffic expected to come from
smartphones by the end of 2021.
To improve indoor app coverage for mobile consumer and
business customers, leading operators around the world
have adopted the Ericsson Radio Dot System, an innovative
indoor small cell solution commercially introduced in the last
quarter of 2014. Recently, Sichuan Mobile, the largest mobile
communications operator in western China, became the 100th
mobile operator worldwide to adopt the Ericsson Dot System.
The Radio Dot System is designed to enable mobile operators
and innovation on new offerings from any location. These
services will be provided through ten Business-Near Centers,
to be announced in 2016, which are connected to the Global
ICT Centers.
The Global ICT Centers are set to be powered by Ericsson’s
cloud solutions and will host a substantial part of the
company’s product portfolio. As a result of this extensive
rationalization and virtualization effort, Ericsson will be able
to shorten innovation cycles and increase global collaboration
while also reducing R&D costs. Currently, the company’s test
environments are spread across more than 50 locations
worldwide. Ericsson’s Global ICT Centers are an important
step toward achieving the company’s sustainability goals.
The cutting-edge design of the centers, combined with
modular and scalable construction, secures efficient use of
energy and space. Ericsson estimates, when all three Global
ICT Centers are in operation, it will result in a 40% reduction
in energy usage compared to 2012 test lab energy baseline.
Ericsson opens 20,000 square meter Global ICT Center in Sweden to
drive innovation
100 operators adopt Ericsson Radio Dot System to improve indoor app coverage
to deliver consistently high-performance voice and data
coverage and capacity in the broadest range of buildings. The
system features the iconic Radio Dot, a sleek, ceiling-mounted
antenna element that provides high-performance app
coverage throughout the building and seamless mobility with
the outdoor mobile network. The system is remote software-
upgradable, with recent commercial software upgrades,
Networks Software 16A, supporting up to 600Mbps peak
rates using LTE-Advanced Carrier Aggregation, while reducing
power consumption of the already-energy-efficient system.
Ericsson Radio Dot System supports the same software
as the operator’s outdoor macrocell network, ensuring a
seamless user experience and faster time to market for new
performance and efficiency-enhancing capabilities.
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