5G/6G

The new innovative Metnet technology from Cambridge Communication Systems (CCS) is providing superfast wireless backhaul for the 5G Smart Tourism testbed to be delivered in Bath and Bristol. The news follows the UK government’s announcement of a £5m competition award to a successful consortium bid led by the West of England Combined Authority.

  Half of all workers in the US will work remotely by 2020 as cities become more congested and workers demand more flexible working conditions. To drive this remote working future, 5G mobile internet will be needed, observed GlobalData, data and analytics company.

MACOM Technology Solutions Inc. has announced the MAOT-025402 CWDM4 transmitter optical sub-assembly as a part of MACOM’s L-PIC (Laser-integrated Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuit) solution for 100Gbps CWDM4. Leveraging our patented L-PIC the MAOT-025402 is designed to mate with the MASC-37053A CDR to form the complete high speed transmit path for QSFP28 CWDM4 solutions. MACOM’s MAOT-025402 CWDM4 L-PIC solution will be on displ...

At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Rohde & Schwarz and Unigroup Spreadtrum & RDA, a fabless semiconductor company with advanced technology in mobile communications and IoT, announced a joint operator test laboratory in China as part of a memorandum of understanding (MoU).

A joint technology demonstration at Mobile World Congress 2018 is being prepared by CEVA and Keysight Technologies. The demonstration includes CEVA’s new PentaG 5G New Radio (NR) IP platform for enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) and Keysight’s Signal Studio to generate 5G NR downlink signals with varying MIMO channel impairments.

Licensor of signal processing platforms and artificial intelligence processors, CEVA, has introduced PentaG, a comprehensive 5G intellectual property (IP) platform for enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB). Compliant to the 3GPP 5G New Radio (NR) Release-15 and software upgradable for Release-16, PentaG is targeted at smartphones, fixed wireless access and the many other embedded devices that can take advantage of multi-gigabit data rates.

Dali Wireless has announced the launch of its second-generation Dali Matrix Virtual Fronthaul Interface (vFI). The move follows heightened demand for open RAN to become a critical component of 5G networks, solving vendor lock-in issues and lowering network roll-out costs. Dali's vFI makes this a reality and will be trialled by major operators in the US and EMEA later this year.

A 5G test solution that enables both the network and the device ecosystems to emulate end-to-end use cases to meet interoperability requirements and gain insights into overall system behaviour will be showcased by W2BI, an Advantest Group company at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona (February 26 - March 1).

  NTT DOCOMO will exhibit their latest 5G technology at Mobile World Congress 2018 in Barcelona from 26th February to 1st March 2018. DOCOMO will demonstrate use cases for its latest high speed, large capacity, low latency, massive device connectivity 5G technology, which it is aiming to commercialise in Japan by 2020.

A planned expansion of the Universal Wireless Test Set MT8870A software to support the new 3GPP 5G Sub-6 GHz New Radio (NR) RF measurement standards has been released by Anritsu. The enhanced 5G Sub-6GHz NR Uplink Tx Measurement and Downlink Waveform File software options will support non-signaling based 5G Sub-6GHz TRx tests.