IN Brief:
- RANsemi’s RNS802 baseband SoC has been designed into deployable 4G and 5G systems from Apeiroon.
- The partnership targets backpack, vehicle-mounted, and temporary network platforms where power, size, and field resilience are tightly constrained.
- The design win points to a broader shift as private cellular moves from fixed industrial sites toward portable, mission-critical infrastructure.
RANsemi has secured a design win for its RNS802 5G RAN baseband SoC in a new generation of deployable wireless systems from Apeiroon, placing the British company’s silicon at the centre of tactical and mission-critical 4G and 5G platforms. The systems are aimed at defence, public safety, and critical-industry deployments where a working network has to be brought into the field rather than inherited from existing infrastructure.
Apeiroon’s portfolio spans backpack-based communications systems for dismounted teams, vehicle-mounted relay platforms for mobile command and tactical operations, and compact units for private or temporary networks. In practical terms, that makes the SoC less of a conventional base station component and more of an enabling device for self-contained cellular infrastructure that can be moved, deployed quickly, and operated in constrained environments.
RANsemi said the RNS802 combines physical-layer processing, acceleration, and system flexibility in a power-efficient footprint that supports both 4G and 5G operation. That mix matters in deployable systems, where thermal limits, battery life, board area, and ruggedisation pressure all arrive at once. The engineering challenge is not simply throughput; it is how much radio and baseband capability can be packaged into a field-ready form factor without turning portability into a paper exercise.
The collaboration also marks a wider evolution in private cellular. Early industrial deployments focused on factories, campuses, ports, and fixed critical-infrastructure sites. The next phase is more mobile, pushing private-network capability into vehicles, temporary operating zones, rapid-response units, and remote industrial locations where coverage, security, and resilience have to travel with the user. Apeiroon’s Roadwave platform reflects that direction, with the company saying a full 4G or 5G network can be placed on a vehicle in minutes, while related backpack systems extend the same approach to teams on foot.
For RANsemi, the project gives fresh validation to its Open RAN baseband strategy beyond the standard small-cell narrative. For Apeiroon, it provides a highly integrated silicon platform for systems that depend on size, power, and operational independence in equal measure. That combination is likely to attract attention well beyond tactical communications, particularly as temporary private networks become more relevant in industrial response, remote operations, and event-based infrastructure.
More information is available from Apeiroon and RANsemi’s announcement.
