5G/6G
Anatomy of a 5G smart city
As smart city technologies begin to emerge in volume, their network requirements will have to cope with 5G workloads, and will need to do that in a 5G way. This month Rethink Internet of Things (Riot) takes an in-depth look at a smart city approach which is built around the municipality’s own fibre, Software Defined Networks and cloud analytics software – a system which will survive the transition into a 5G world, as it sear...
Fixed wireless deployed by AeroNet survives two hurricanes
To deliver business broadband in Old San Juan before two back-to-back hurricanes devastated the island, one of Puerto Rico's service providers, AeroNet was using Siklu's MultiHaul, a point-to-multipoint 60GHz radio. The storms wiped out much of the fibre and wireless infrastructure, but the MultiHaul survived both storms intact. With no fibre available and a long expected time for redeployment, residents turned to AeroNet's wi...
Global mobile industry achieves multi-band 5G NR interoperability
Based on the newly-approved NSA 5G NR standard, an important technology milestone has been achieved by a group of leading mobile communications companies. Ericsson and Qualcomm Technologies, in collaboration with AT&T, NTT DOCOMO, Orange, SK Telecom, Sprint, Telstra, T-Mobile US, Verizon, and Vodafone, showcased 3GPP-compliant 5G NR multi-vendor interoperability during live demonstrations held in both the Ericsson Lab in Kista, Sweden an...
End-to-End 5G NR interoperable system based on 3GPP standard
Qualcomm Technologies (a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated), ZTE, and China Mobile have announced that they have successfully achieved the world’s first end-to-end 5G NR Interoperability Data Testing (IoDT) system demonstrating a data connection based on 3GPP R15 standard. Following the guidelines of China Mobile, the IoDT connection demonstration took place at China Mobile’s 5G Joint Innovation Centre, and utilised ZTE’s...
There could be one billion 5G subscriptions by 2023
By 2023, Ericsson forecasts there will be one billion 5G subscriptions for enhanced mobile broadband. This prediction is among the key statistics presented in the November edition of the Ericsson Mobility Report. Expected to be deployed first in dense urban areas, 5G will cover over 20% of the world’s population by the end of 2023. The first commercial networks based on 5G New Radio (NR) are expected to go live in 2019, with major depl...
Who has the best IP position to face the 4G to 5G transition?
Since 2000 and the development of smartphones, the number of frequency bands used in mobile telecommunication has undergone a huge increase from four bands in the 2000s to more than 30 bands today. To manage this growth, also pushed by the upcoming 5G, RF modules have been widely developed.
Don't get it twisted
The UK government has invested £16 million in 5G network development. Here, Dervish Ibrahim, international sales manager at wire payoff machine supplier, TM Robotics, explains how the success of this, and investments in high speed broadband and smart city connectivity, are very much dependant on the quality of manufacturing processes for high speed internet cables. 5G will go beyond enhancing our own smartphone usage. It will enable th...
Investing in a digital Switzerland
Telecommunications provider in Switzerland, Swisscom, has selected Ericsson for complete digital transformation and evolution of its entire network to deploy nationwide Gigabit LTE from 2018, and 5G from 2020.
Outdoor trial of 5G technologies for low-latency communications
Using a 4.5GHz system developed in collaboration with Huawei, NTT DOCOMO has conducted what it claims to be the world's first successful outdoor trial of 5G mobile technologies for ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC). The trial simulated a realistic environment involving a stationary mobile terminal that received signals at distances of 0.8-1km from the base station.
Gateway clock provides phase to 4G and 5G base stations
Provider of semiconductor solutions differentiated by power, security, reliability and performance, Microsemi, has announced the launch of its TimeProvider 4100, a flexible IEEE 1588 Precision Time Protocol (PTP) grandmaster clock designed to scale from the edge to the aggregation layers of both mobile infrastructure and access networks.