Ericsson Baseband 6648 - Product Overview; Main Features; Purpose; Variants

1 Product Overview
This document describes the 19-inch baseband units for Ericsson Radio Systems.
1.1 Main Features
This section describes the main features of the baseband.
Not all features are supported by all equipment congurations. For a description
of the current equipment congurations, see RBS Congurations.
The main features of the baseband are the following:
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NR, LTE, and NR + LTE Mixed Mode
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Elastic RAN
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Backhaul cascading
1.2
Purpose
Baseband 6648 provides switching, trafc management, timing, baseband
processing, and radio interfacing. The baseband unit is in the 19-inch format,
with 12 Common Public Radio Interface (CPRI or eCPRI) ports, enabling
increased connectivity for radio units.
1.3
Variants
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Baseband 6648:
• R2C and R2D versions have an operating temperature of 0 to +45°C.
• R2C and R2D versions have approximately 10% higher power
consumption across the temperature range.
For information about supported congurations and capacity, refer to RBS
Congurations
1.4
Overview
This section provides an overview of the 19-inch baseband units, see Figure 1.
Product Overview
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