5G / Mobile Infrastructure

ICs

Designing 5G/LTE HetNet Equipment

5G is revolutionizing how Carriers support the massive bandwidth required for mobile broadband connectivity. At Microsemi, we understand your carrier customers’ needs and the unique challenges you face in designing network equipment for the evolving wireless infrastructure. Our industry-leading solutions portfolio is tailored to address those challenges for:

• End-to-End Synchronization: Microsemi solutions enable end-to-end coordination and synchronization of timing for heterogeneous cellular networks (HetNets) with IEEE 1588, Synchronous Ethernet and GPS systems. Our VeriTime™ technology delivers the highest accuracy IEEE 1588 timing for IP Edge networks;
• Extreme Energy Efficiency: Microsemi products are designed to minimize power consumption and heat dissipation in network equipment. Microsemi also offers an innovative portfolio of Power over Ethernet (PoE) solutions to efficiently supply power to wireless network equipment, for indoor as well as outdoor applications;
• Security: Microsemi’s ICs and FPGAs are uniquely positioned to secure wireless network equipment design and deployment at multiple levels;
• Compact Form Factor: Low power consumption of Microsemi products with specially designed small form factor packaging enables the most space-efficient of cellular network equipment designs.

Explore Microsemi’s portfolio for cellular infrastructure network equipment designs:

• Ethernet PHYs
• Ethernet Software
• Ethernet Switches
• FPGA & SoC
  
  • Low-range density FPGAs & SoCs
  • Mid-range density FPGAs
• GPS Timing
• IEEE 1588 PLLs & Software
• OTN Processors
• PCIe Switches
• Power over Ethernet (PoE) PD Front End
• PoE PSE Manager
• PoE PSE Modules
• Synchronous Ethernet (SyncE) ICs
• Timing & Synchronization ICs including Clock Management

Microsemi is a long-time supplier to the aerospace, communications, defense/security and industrial markets and well-known for its high-reliability, high-performance solutions. Leveraging our technology and expertise, we can help drive innovation in your wireless network equipment designs that address your carrier customers’ needs.

Contact your local Microsemi sales office today to find the right technologies and products to solve your wireless network equipment design challenges.

Systems

Deploying 5G / LTE Heterogeneous Networks

For carriers, Microsemi offers an industry-leading solutions portfolio for end-to-end synchronization of networks, as well as powering small cells using Power over Ethernet (PoE) midspans.

Microsemi offers unique and innovative solutions to address some of the key challenges faced by carriers deploying small cells, especially in heterogeneous networks. 

• Timing & Synchronization: Already proven and deployed in multiple carrier networks globally, Microsemi's portfolio of network synchronization products include industry-leading Grandmaster and Edge Master systems. Mobile operators need lower-cost backhaul methods to build out high-speed 4G data services and improve coverage and capacity. The shift to an Ethernet/IP backhaul helps meet this challenge, while also increasing the importance of maintaining precise frequency distribution. As the global leader in timing and synchronization solutions, Microsemi has a full suite of end-to-end solutions to serve the precise timing requirements of wireless operators. Microsemi's industry-leading IEEE 1588 PackeTime® precise synchronization and timing solution has been deployed in over 100 networks worldwide.
• Power over Ethernet: Microsemi offers the largest portfolio of standards-compliant PoE Midspans that can power in a variety of deployment scenarios – for indoor as well as outdoor applications including industrial PoE systems that offer extended temperature range support and higher reliability.
• Communications: Both traditional and next-generation communications infrastructure requires precise time to ensure the Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE) that customers demand for voice, video and data services. Microsemi's full suite of synchronization, timing and monitoring products maximize the network’s performance and expedite the delivery of next-generation digital services while bringing a new level of flexibility and dynamic configuration to the network.
• Optimizing the Transition to LTE: As telecom providers and network carriers begin rolling out 5G, Microsemi timekeeping ensures the highest quality of service possible. Once a routine network function, timing, and synchronization requirements are changing rapidly as mobile network and backhaul technologies evolve. Carriers successfully solved the problem of distributing frequency synchronization through asynchronous Ethernet backhaul networks using IEEE 1588 Precision Time Protocol (PTP) and/or Synchronous Ethernet (SyncE). Looking forward, LTE-Time Division Duplex and LTE-Advanced impose new, very stringent time and phase synchronization requirements. With the advent of small cells, several additional backhaul technologies are in the mix. Together, the stringent timing for phase and new backhaul technologies for small cells have pushed cell site synchronization issues to the forefront.

Explore Microsemi’s portfolio for deployment and management of your microwave backhaul network equipment:

• Timing & Synchronization Systems
• PoE Midspans, Injectors, Switches

Microsemi is a long-time supplier to the aerospace, communications, defense/security and industrial industries and well-known for its high-reliability, high-performance solutions. Leveraging our technology and expertise, we can help drive innovation in your wireless network deployments that address your unique needs.

Contact your local Microsemi sales office today to find the right technologies and products to solve your next-gen wireless network equipment deployment challenges.

Ecosystem

Ecosystem Solutions

Microsemi works with its Accelerate network of ecosystem partners to integrate, test and deliver pre-validated board or system solutions in our core vertical markets, such as communications infrastructure, to expedite our customers' time to market.

See our available reference design platforms for communications applications, such as service provider gateways, enterprise WLAN access points, 802.11ac Wave-2 Wi-Fi aggregation, SMB/SME access/distribution switching, Ethernet aggregation and more.

Resources

White Paper Resources

•  Capitalizing on Synchronization: Reducing the Effects of Churn in Wireless Networks
  
•  What Time is It? - The Importance of Time in the Network
  
•  Options for Mitigating Potential GPS Vulnerabilities
• PoE and PoH for Carrier Applications
• Timing over MACsec
•  Timing & Sync for LTE-TDD, LTE-A Mobile Networks

Application Notes

•  Timing and Synchronization in WiMAX Networks
•  Five Essential Elements of Carrier Class NTP
•  Timing and Synchronization in Next-Generation Wireless Networks
•  IEEE 1588 Precision Time Protocol – Frequency Synchronization Over Packet Networks