What is a 5G base station called?

The new radio access technology for 5G is called “NR” and replaces “LTE”, and the new base station is called gNB (or gNodeB) , and replaces the eNB (or eNodeB or Evolved Node B).

Components of a 5G base station Figure 1. An integrated gNodeB includes a 5G Core, PHY, DFE and RF front end, as well as Layer 2 and Layer 3 packet processing . Layer 2 and Layer 3 of the OSI model are responsible for the packet processing elements and have less strict timing requirements than the Layer 1 PHY.19 Nis 2021

5G will use ‘massive’ MIMO (multiple input, multiple output) antennas that have very large numbers of antenna elements or connections to send and receive more data simultaneously . The benefit to users is that more people can simultaneously connect to the network and maintain high throughput.