Key challenges
Mobile base station designers often need to manage the following aspects:
- Compatibility for integrating base transceiver stations between different vendor equipment in O-RAN configurations.
- Scalability in ensuring that the BBU can scale to support multiple types of radio units and new deployment scenarios to meet the growing demand for mobile services.
- Energy efficiency to reduce the carbon footprint of mobile base stations.
- Security, authentication, privacy, and regulatory compliance to ensure that mobile networks are secure and reliable.
Our products and solutions
ST answers these challenges through a wide range of innovative products, including an extensive range of 32-bit microcontrollers and microprocessors equipped with a set of hardware peripherals and software development tools.
Secure ST solutions include a product family and complete ecosystem to support authentication, secure connection establishment, secure boot and firmware upgrade, and trusted network access.
ST provides a complete power device portfolio, including IGBTs, thyristors, power rectifiers and MOSFETs, power modules and system-in-package (SiP) solutions to make mobile base stations more energy-efficient.
Our broad range of inertial and environmental MEMS sensors can also enhance the functionality of base transceiver stations.
We offer selected customers a range of technologies for telecom applications, such as RF-SOI, BiCMOS, and FDSOI, and derivates of these through our customer-owned tooling (COT) business model.
