[Shenzhen, China, June 16, 2025] At Germany’s prestigious Red Dot Award Design Competition, Huawei’s FDD tri-band Massive MIMO earned the Red Dot Design Award for its exceptional performance and lean, energy-efficient design.
The award-winning FDD tri-band Massive MIMO
Since its commercial debut in Nigeria with MTN—Africa’s largest mobile operator—this February, Huawei’s FDD tri-band Massive MIMO has been tested and deployed on over 20 networks across the globe. The solution delivers significant value to operators’ customers by relieving traffic demand on 4G networks, providing deep and wide 5G coverage, and enabling enhanced 5G-A uplink. The solution simultaneously delivers five leading technological advantages:
- Simplified ultra-wideband: The solution supports industry-leading, high-power 720 W output, while employing cutting-edge Real Wide Bandwidth and Compact Dipole technologies. This realizes unified operations across three bands (such as 1.8 GHz, 2.1 GHz, and 2.6 GHz, or AWS, PCS, and 2.6 GHz) within a single form factor whose size is equivalent to a conventional two-band Massive MIMO device. This enables the solution to boost both frequency bands and power capabilities without increasing size or wind load.
- Ultimate capacity: This solution is an effective enabler for 4G, 5G, and 5G-A. It can deliver 3-fold to 4-fold downlink capacity gains on 4G networks, which can increase to 7-fold in NR over LTE 4T4R, thereby effectively alleviating network congestion.
- Enhanced uplink: By leveraging M-Receiver technology, the solution realizes 5-fold uplink capacity and 10 dB uplink coverage gains compared to LTE 4T4R, fulfilling new demands of the mobile AI era that are typified by HD streaming and security, multimodal AI interactions, and autonomous driving.
- Native beamforming: Tri-band Massive MIMO traditionally increases interference due to the addition of extra beams. However, supported by enhanced intelligent beam scheduling and intelligent beamforming, Huawei’s tri-band Massive MIMO enables dynamic beam movement with users and intelligent interference avoidance, boosting user experience by 20% to 30%.
- Energy saving: The innovative GigaGreen architecture supports “0 bit 0 watt”, enabling ultra-deep dormancy during low-traffic periods and instant wake-up when traffic increases, meaning substantial reductions in overall network power consumption.
“We have prioritized innovation in order to provide customers with wireless products that deliver unparalleled performance in terms of user experience, network capacity, energy efficiency, and simplified deployment. It is our mission to help operators build premium networks that offer improved efficiency and cost-performance. This award for tri-band Massive MIMO represents the industry’s recognition of our innovative design. Moving forward, we will continue down the path of innovation and escort our operator partners as they strive towards greater business success,” said Fang Xiang, Vice President of Huawei Wireless Network Product Line.
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