What are the key benefits of 5G RedCap?

What are the key benefits of 5G RedCap?
In terms of technical characteristics, RedCap lies between eMBB (ultra broadband) and LPWA (low power wide area network, NB-IoT, etc.) RedCap is mainly targeted at applications where the requirements of bandwidth, power consumption, and cost are based between eMBB and LPWA.

(1) Low cost: Compared with normal 5G terminal equipment, 5G RedCap equipment uses fewer antennas, while 5G RedCap supports lower bandwidth. the reduced number of antennas can reduce the cost of materials, and the reduced bandwidth can reduce the cost of PA, which makes the cost of the whole set of equipment lower than that of the normal 5G equipment. at the same time, 5G RedCap reduces the power consumption, which provides more choices for us in the selection of power supply at a later stage, and we can select the power supply according to the length of time of the equipment’s use.

(2) High-speed rate: RedCap’s transmission rate in smart wearable device applications can reach 150 Mbps for downlink transmission and 50 Mbps for uplink transmission.

(3) Low Power Consumption: RedCap’s batteries can last several years in industrial sensor applications and one to two weeks in smart wearable devices.

Further evolution of IoT applications and LTE to NR migration.RedCap devices have similar peak rates and sophistication to existing low-end LTE device classes (e.g., Cat-2, Cat-3, or Cat-4).This makes RedCap devices the best choice for replacing low-end LTE devices when use cases that require a migration from low-end LTE devices ultimately need to migrate to NR.We can also implement a dual-mode device type that supports both low-end LTE and RedCap devices, when the device hardware has similar requirements for bandwidth, number of antennas, and modulation support as low-end LTE devices.

All in all, RedCap devices can coexist efficiently with other NR devices without adversely affecting overall network performance.RedCap inherits many of the key benefits of 5G NR, such as support for a wide range of frequency bands (including millimeter-wave bands), a native 5G core network, high network power efficiency due to the NR Lean Design, low latency, and more.
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