5G/6G

Keysight Technologies’ new handheld measurement software (Nemo Handy) uses Android-based commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) smartphones for verification of 5G new radio (NR) quality-of-service (QoS) and quality-of-experience (QoE) in the field.

Renesas Electronics and Sequans Communications, a provider of 5G/4G chips and modules for IoT, will partner to develop IoT modules based on Sequans’ Monarch LTE-M/NB-IoT platform. The modules are designed to provide IoT companies with an integrated microcontroller (MCU) plus connectivity platform that streamlines and simplifies IoT system design for many applications, including smart city, smart home, and industrial IoT. The collaboration b...

NXP Semiconductors and NEC have announced that NEC selected NXP to supply RF Airfast multi-chip modules to be used in a Massive MIMO 5G antenna Radio Unit (RU) for Rakuten Mobile. NEC’s Massive MIMO 5G antenna RU features a 5G open virtual radio access network (vRAN) interface and has been adopted by Rakuten Mobile for its fully virtualised cloud-native mobile network.

The imminent large-scale rollout of 5G technology imposes new and tough challenges for designers of PCB, network equipment, electronic devices in general, and 5G testing. 5G will not only represent an increase in data rates, but it will be a real revolution, with latency times reduced up to 1ms and the use of millimeter waves (mmWave) to support greater bandwidth.

Portwell has announced new product lines in its Advanced Network Solutions (ANS) family of computing platforms for software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) appliances. The new products offer the high throughput and connectivity options required to support the demanding requirements of 5G cellular and WiFi 6 applications.

The multifaceted needs of a 5G network creates new requirements, like those for AI, IoT, and MEC applications, that legacy technology cannot meet. Due to 5G’s requirement to distribute compute nodes to 10’s of thousands of different sites to support the explosion of new connected devices, there is a fundamental mismatch to legacy virtualisation approaches.  Guest blog written by Jeff Gowan

The market for 5G devices is expanding rapidly, several 5G smartphones are now available on the market, with manufacturers emphasising the benefits of low latency and high download rates. However, 5G still faces many challenges, especially in the infrastructure.

As the global 5G market is promised to boost digital innovation and economic growth worldwide to $24bn dollars by 2025, operators need a flexible and dynamic charging system to monetise the complexity of customer demands, says Martin Laesch, Chief Technology Officer of Neural Technologies at TM Forum Digital Transformation World, 7th to 9th October 2020.

NXP Semiconductors has announced the grand opening of its 150mm RF Gallium Nitride fab in Chandler, Arizona, the most advanced fab dedicated to 5G RF power amplifiers in the United States. The new internal factory combines NXP’s expertise in RF power and its high-volume manufacturing know-how, resulting in streamlined innovation that supports the expansion of 5G base stations and advanced communication infrastructure in the industrial, aero...

Antenova has added a high performing 5G SMD design to its array of 5G antennas. This brand-new antenna, Lepida SR4L054, is a wideband antenna in SMD form, designed to achieve high efficiency and performance right across the spectrum from 600MHz to 3800MHz.