5G/6G

The launch of an enhanced Traffic Management Solution (TMS) for 5G has been announced by NEC, which improves the throughput of high speed networks that support data transfer rates of more than five gigabits per second. 

It has been announced that Skyworks Solutions has unveiled the latest solutions from its Sky5 portfolio, the unifying platform enabling 5G applications. Skyworks’ wideband 16-state antenna aperture tuners are compact and designed to deliver improved efficiency and enhanced bandwidth coverage, from 600MHz to 6GHz for LTE Advanced Pro to emerging 5G standards.

It has been announced that SiTime Corporation, a provider of MEMS timing, and Intel are collaborating to work together on integrating timing solutions for Intel’s 5G multi-mode radio modems, with additional applicability to Intel LTE, millimetre-wave wireless, WiFi, Bluetooth, and GNSS solutions. 

  NEC has announced the provision of a demo system for intrusion detection solutions utilising Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC), a network architecture concept for next-gen communications, to DOCOMO 5G Open Lab Yotsuya, a 5G technology verification centre run by NTT DOCOMO.

The release of the newest network synchronisation integrated circuit (IC) product family from Microsemi has been announced, for Synchronous Ethernet (SyncE) and IEEE 1588 timing and line card applications. Targeted for upcoming 5G wireless equipment and network infrastructure, the new product family provides advanced phase measurement and adjustment capabilities which simplify next-gen transport and wireless equipment design.

The telecom revolution taking place in the early 21st century has led to impressive innovations, especially at the devices level, and according to Yole Développement (Yole), the RF FE modules market will be so highly impacted by new 5G standard it is expected to reach $35.2bn in 2023.

Two series of millimeter wave (mmWave) radio heads for the mmWave Transceiver System have been released by NI. The radio heads, which cover spectrum from 24.5GHz to 33.4GHz and 37GHz to 43.5GHz, are targeted at wireless researchers prototyping 5G New Radio (NR) systems.

NI and Spirent Communications have announced a collaboration to develop test systems for 5G New Radio (NR) devices. The collaboration will allow 5G chipset and device manufacturers to validate the performance of 5G NR smartphones and IoT devices in the lab without requiring access to expensive and complex 5G base stations (gNodeBs). 

It has been announced by Blu Wireless Technology, that its 5G ready technology has been used to stream video through Bristol’s historic centre. The 5G-XHaul project demonstration, which started 1st July 2015, marks the end of a three year collaborative research study to identify 5G technologies funded by the European Commission under the framework of the 5G Public Private Partnership (5G-PPP).

Members of the 5G Device Forerunner Initiative were brought together by China Mobile in Shanghai to publish the Guideline for 5G Terminal Products. China Mobile and the other members of the 5G Device Forerunner Initiative signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU).