SOLiD: Delivering Seamless Cellular Coverage and Capacity

By 2025, 5G networks are likely to cover one-third of the world’s population and will denote a new era in which connectivity will become increasingly flexible and fluid. When South Korea launched the first 5G service globally, one of the frontrunners of developing telecommunications solutions was SOLiD with its next-generation networks based on O-RAN and distributed antenna systems using fiber-to-the-edge architecture. Today, SOLiD’s solutions facilitate indoor and outdoor cellular and public-safety communications at venues ranging from the busiest airports and subways to Fortune 500 corporate buildings, hospitals, hotels, and universities, professional and college sports venues, government, industrial, and logistics facilities.

Headquartered in South Korea, SOLiD incorporates emerging technology and tests new applications before rolling it in other parts of the world. One of the company’s unique value propositions is products featuring true modularity that facilitates technological changes like 4G to 5G migration. This is particularly useful as new technology often forces older equipment to be replaced entirely. However, “SOLiD offers customers the ability to upgrade systems and avoid rip and replace scenarios and in the process save a significant amount of resources and money,” explains Ken Sandfeld, President (Americas), SOLiD. The company’s primary offering is the Alliance Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS) platform, which empowers cellular coverage and capacity at lower costs than comparable systems while delivering superior performance. In addition, SOLiD’s first Fiber2Antenna solution is called edgeROU, a small, compact, active 5G antenna that provides a Wi-Fi like wireless experience and is easy to install while at the same time offering 15 to 25 percent more coverage than other active DAS solutions.

Recently, SOLiD launched RocketWAVE 5G mmWave repeater solution that delivers unprecedented speeds and accesses outdoors and inside buildings. The solution enhances network coverage for three primary use cases: outdoor urban mobile, Fixed Wireless Access, and indoor mobile. RocketWAVE 5G mmWave repeaters overcome the challenges of easily obstructed high band signals retransmitting the signals around obstructions extending coverage distance.