Building better power supplies for 5G base stations Authored by: Alessandro Pevere, and Francesco Di Domenico, both at Infineon Technologies
Discover the factors that telecoms organizations need to consider for 5G infrastructure power design in the network core and cloud.
Discover the factors that telecoms organizations need to consider for 5G infrastructure power design in the network core and cloud.
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For macro base stations, Cheng Wentao of Infineon gave some suggestions on the optimization of primary and secondary power supplies. “In terms of primary power supply, we
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