India, Oct. 21 -- Qualcomm Technologies has launched a full portfolio of 5G infrastructure semiconductor platforms designed for broad deployment scenarios, ranging from macro base stations with massive MIMO to micro base stations with compact designs, to accelerate the cellular ecosystem transition toward virtualized and interoperable radio access networks (RAN) - a trend driven by 5G.

Qualcomm Technologies is introducing three new 5G RAN platform offerings: Qualcomm Radio Unit Platform, Qualcomm Distributed Unit Platform, and Qualcomm Distributed Radio Unit Platform.

The new platforms, says Qualcomm, are purposely-designed from the ground up to support leading mobile operators in the deployment of a new generation of converged, open, a...