The novelty of the time is certainly of interest to all those who are following and looking forward to the arrival of 5G in Brazil: Ceragon, an Israeli manufacturer of wireless transport network solutions, announced that it was selected by the company TIM Brasil to participate in a pilot plan, carried out with the Telecom Infra-Project (TIP) of 5G OpenRAN.

According to the Israeli manufacturer, the open field test will take place on the INATEL campus, located in Santa Rita do Sapucaí, Minas Gerais, and will include the participation of other software and hardware suppliers, operators, researchers, and members of the TIP groups.

This pilot plan will be led by TIP, which has already been promoting open and unbundled solutions for telecommunications networks. It aims to observe and validate different combinations of OpenRAN components from various suppliers (‘mix and match’) and their performance under conditions similar to those of a commercial network.

This novelty is a step towards the involvement of the manufacturer Ceragon in future network deployments in Brazil. It is also a novelty about the arrival of the expected 5G technology in our country.

TIM will implement the new generation, external, high-capacity IP-50E millimeter wave solution – it will provide a capacity of up to 20 Gbps today per link.

Pietro Labriola, TIM’s CEO, says that the company is also interested in using the 26 GHz spectrum, which will be auctioned this year by Anatel, to deploy high-capacity transmission networks where it is not possible to reach with optical fiber.

‘The results of this test will further strengthen the relationship between TIM and Ceragon’, celebrated Silmar Palmeira, who is the head of Architecture and Innovation Technology at TIM Brasil.

Ira Palti, the President and CEO of Ceragon Networks, also stated that ‘Ceragon’s IP-50 solutions were designed to offer the best native cloud offerings for each of TIM Brasil’s network transport domains – and certainly the results of the test will reflect exactly that’.