I have to admit I don’t understand what you’re talking about. Even the fact that you use units of kWh instead of kW is a bit confusing, as it makes it unclear who we’re even dealing with. I don’t think you’re a reliable source if you talk about kilowatt-hours when discussing power, but I’ll reply anyway.
“The Nokia outdoor unit you’re referring to achieves a 70% relative advantage with the same traffic profile; power consumption naturally increases as traffic grows to the previous level.”
Power consumption increases when traffic increases, not when it “grows to the previous level.” Skimming through, it looks like you, as an amateur, tried to make your message as difficult as possible for a layman to read.
“If we now consider that one or more H100/H200s would need to be installed in the Airscale (indoor unit) subrack, cooling becomes a challenge: the hardware is dimensioned for 50% lower consumption. It’s difficult to install GPUs in outdoor units due to passive cooling.”
Yeah, so this is better since they are developing units that consume less. You don’t even need to upgrade the cooling if you want to update. Or what are you trying to say?
For a while now, it’s seemed like you’re a troll account focused on negativity, just like certain handles on a similar discussion board. You know how to look up terminology, but not how to use it.
Typo, should be kW. The figures are from Nokia’s technical documents, which you can browse yourself if you know the sites where telecom catalogs are archived. However, you won’t get much out of those documents unless you know the context. You’re trying hard to provoke me into revealing my background, but that’s not going to happen.
No shit Sherlock. Every new nodeB/baseband generation uses newer technology and is designed to provide more capacity within the margins allowed by the thermal budget set by electromechanics. Part of this additional capacity is consumed by increased functionality (and SW complexity), part by traffic growth.
Existing Nvidia GPU/CPU units cannot be installed in an AirScale nodeB configuration if there’s no room in the thermal budget. Creating space in the thermal budget is not trivial for configurations in operational use (practically rip-and-replace).
I’m not going to criticize others’ comments, but I will correct them if they are anything other than opinions. Naturally, this annoys people who, as laymen (as you’ve described yourself), don’t know the subject and believe they’ve found some new technical angle to hype Nokia’s excellence and raise their own profile.
Energy consumption is not just a cost for the operator. A more important perspective for the operator is hardware reliability as processing increases and turns into heat. For example, in the Indian 5G market, Nokia has had challenges with outdoor units, and the attempt to improve airflow didn’t go quite right. But I’ll leave that story untold, because it’s too negative for you (too).
If we are talking specifically about the Indian 5G market, the “outdoor unit issues” mentioned there could, in practice, relate to a few very typical technical challenges that all manufacturers have encountered in hot and large-scale networks.
Partial quote from AI information on the topic. You could really elaborate on that Nokia 5G challenge. Are hot climates, rain, dust, etc., a problem for all suppliers? But why specifically for Nokia?
Compared to Huawei’s radios, Nokia is lagging behind in all key areas, particularly in PAs (the biggest power consumers). This gap is narrowing as Nokia also shifts to using GaN technology (Habrok, Doksuri). This means that Nokia radios currently in the field have a high idle heat load even without traffic.
Enhanced passive heat dissipation requires increasing the airflow through the outer casing, which further exposes the equipment to rain, dust, and animal waste. Although the aforementioned factors do not damage the electronics, they further degrade heat dissipation and thus the reliability of the system.
I’ll say this one more time. Once you lose your credibility as a writer, you don’t get it back. You can keep up the technical jargon, but it’s quite pointless.
Nokia’s partner Nscale has raised more capital and gained new owners in its Series C round (Nokia is also involved), and its valuation has already risen to $14bn.
Nokia is, after all, their “preferred partner”,
there is surely some kind of ownership stake, likely in the range of some percentage.
