5G NR-Light (RedCap): Revolutionizing IoT | E-Lins
"5G RedCap" actually stands for 5G Reduced Capability, also known as New Radio lite (NR lite) Figure 1. Bridging the 5G IoT capability and complexity gap with NR-Light Establishing a new device class — 5G NR-Light — in 5G standards In 5G NR Release 17, 3GPP introduced a new tier of reduced capability (RedCap) devices, also known as NR-Light . It is a new device platform that bridges the capability and complexity gap between the extremes in 5G today with an optimized design for mid-tier use cases. When compared to 5G enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) devices that can support gigabits per second of throughput in the downlink and uplink, NR-Light devices can efficiently support 150 Mbps and 50 Mbps in the downlink and uplink, respectively, due to the designed optimizations: narrower bandwidths, i.e., 20 MHz in sub-7 GHz or 100 MHz in millimeter wave (mmWave) frequency bands, a single transmit antenna, ...
