Huawei’s PanoAAU Aims to Change the Economics of 5G Coverage
Zahid Ghadialy (noreply@blogger.com)
As 5G networks continue to expand beyond dense urban centres, the industry has been forced to confront a difficult reality. Traditional deployment models, built around three-sector sites and relatively narrow beam coverage, do not translate well into rural and semi-rural environments. Lower population density, larger coverage areas and tighter budgets mean that operators need to extract far more value from each site. Huawei’s PanoAAU is one attempt to address this challenge. While it has been in