(Telecompaper) Ericsson has announced the commercialisation of the world's first 5G NR radio for massive MIMO, with the first deployments coming in 2017. Together with the Ericsson 5G Plug-Ins announced in June and the company's already commercially available Radio System Baseband 5216, Ericsson said it's the first company to deliver all components of a 5G access network. The new 5G radio components include AIR 6468, which combines advanced antennas with a large number of steerable ports to enable 5G technologies of beamforming, Massive MIMO and Multi-user MIMO. Companies such as AT&T, Swisscom and China Mobile have already committed to using Ericsson's new radio product to help them integrate 5G technologies into existing networks.