Qualcomm launches 5G RAN platform focused on mmWave deployments

US mobile chip giant Qualcomm has continued its interest in the radio access side of things with a platform that claims to combine the best of macro and small cell technology.
It’s simply called the Qualcomm Compact Macro 5G RAN Platform, the name indicating this ‘best of both worlds’ spin. The company reckons it already knows a thing or two about small cells, as manifested in its FSM 5G RAN Platform. Into that mix Qualcomm has thrown the kind of antenna technology it reckons y