lilotimz Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 Ericsson AIR6488 B41 Massive MIMO Antenna Radio Unit This 64T64R Massive MIMO units will be likely found in Ericsson vendor territory from network vision days. It will be easily identified by it's lack of an external remote radio like Sprints typical LTE equipment and its size being significantly smaller than Sprints existing 800,1.9, and 2.5 equipment. Source: Sprint Additional Photos from FCC Filing 6 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terrell352 Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 Ruus will be at the base station correct? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilotimz Posted April 6, 2018 Author Share Posted April 6, 2018 4 minutes ago, Terrell352 said: Ruus will be at the base station correct? Quote Antenna Integrated Radio - AIR "... The radio solution, based on a unique design compactly integrating the antenna into the radio unit, will cut energy consumption and installation time drastically." 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terrell352 Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 Is Sprint actively deploying these now or will it start soon?Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilotimz Posted April 6, 2018 Author Share Posted April 6, 2018 2 minutes ago, Terrell352 said: Is Sprint actively deploying these now or will it start soon? Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk Quote https://www.fiercewireless.com/tech/sprint-to-turn-massive-mimo-6-cities-april "Sprint said it plans to turn on 64T64R (64 transmit, 64 receive) Massive MIMO technology in three cities—Chicago, Dallas and Los Angeles—in April. And later this year Sprint will expand that to Atlanta, Houston and Washington, D.C. The company said vendors Samsung, Ericsson and Nokia are supplying the equipment." Chicago = Samsung Dallas = Ericsson Los Angeles = Nokia 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAvirani Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 Do you have the dimensions of this antenna by any chance? Or maybe a picture of it next to NV/next-gen equipment? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilotimz Posted April 23, 2018 Author Share Posted April 23, 2018 10 hours ago, RAvirani said: Do you have the dimensions of this antenna by any chance? Or maybe a picture of it next to NV/next-gen equipment? There are no clear photographs of these equipment next to existing gear... unfortunately. Could not find dimensions but if we look at the publicly available photos we can get a good estimate since they're all about the same size. In comparison, standard 8T8R is ~5' tall and standard 10 port / triband / deca hex etc are around 6-7' tall while MMRs are significantly smaller compared to adult males. so I take it 3' or so? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nexgencpu Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 This video has a couple of good shots in comparison to 8t8r. Quite amazing how small the footprint is for Massive MIMO in comparison to 8t8r. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAvirani Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 33 minutes ago, nexgencpu said: That’s actually a perfect comparison — thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSpark Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 Here’s how it would compare in size to people’s heads!... https://twitter.com/SprintCTO/status/987431065642991621 And to other gear... https://twitter.com/SprintNetwk/status/987109435788152833 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nexgencpu Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 Another good shot of Massive MIMO antenna(center) compared to what looks like 8t8r(right) 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdob07 Posted August 30, 2019 Share Posted August 30, 2019 Massive MIMO popping up all over Louisville, KY. This is Ericsson territory but these look slightly different than the one on the first post. Possibly newer hardware revision. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone Posted August 30, 2019 Share Posted August 30, 2019 Air 6468 model is being replaced by 6488 to prepare for 5G 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdob07 Posted August 30, 2019 Share Posted August 30, 2019 11 minutes ago, cyclone said: Air 6468 model is being replaced by 6488 to prepare for 5G At the rate they're throwing these up around here I wouldn't be surprised if they try to launch 5G here first half of next year. Three weeks ago I found 4 site conversions in one week. The new GCI makes it easy to notice the change even if I don't directly drive by that site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilotimz Posted August 30, 2019 Author Share Posted August 30, 2019 5 minutes ago, mdob07 said: At the rate they're throwing these up around here I wouldn't be surprised if they try to launch 5G here first half of next year. Three weeks ago I found 4 site conversions in one week. The new GCI makes it easy to notice the change even if I don't directly drive by that site. There is actually multiple Air6468/6488 revisions floating around with different supported frequency bandwidths and the like.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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