5G/6G

NI is to collaborate with Shanghai University on a testbed focused on 5G ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC) for V2X applications. Vehicular networks, especially for autonomous driving applications, must offer ultra-reliability while requiring very low latency.

With mobile data traffic surging by eight times and 1 billion 5G subscriptions expected by the end of 2023, mobile operators must meet consumer and enterprise demand for applications such as 4K/8K video streaming, virtual reality/augmented reality, and immersive media. This puts out a strong call for indoor coverage, which cannot be easily addressed by outdoor radio deployments as modern building materials can block outdoor radio signals.

What will it take for operators to gain consumers’ trust as they gear up for a 5G future? Ericsson has announced Towards a 5G consumer future – its consumer and industry insight report that discusses the six calls to action from consumers that operators need to act upon to provide a foundation for adoption of 5G technology. The report, the biggest 5G consumer expectation study to date, represents the views of 800 million sma...

  At this year's Mobile World Congress (MWC) which is taking place from 26th February to 1st March at the Fira Gran Via, Barcelona, NEC will be exhibiting in hall 3, stand 3M30. The company has announced the presentation of technologies and solutions for working together with telecom carriers in the co-creation of new business models and the implementation of 5G solutions.

On 25th January Qualcomm Technologies held the 2018 Qualcomm China Tech Day in Beijing. At the event, Qualcomm Technologies and leading Chinese manufacturers expressed interest in working together in an initiative to support China’s smartphone industry for the global opportunities that will be made available by 5G and introduce 5G New Radio (NR) standard-compliant commercial devices expected as early as 2019, announced as the '5G Pioneer' I...

In the last couple of years, the RF GaN market experienced an impressive growth and has reshaped the RF power industry landscape. Yole Développement (Yole) announced in their report titled 'RF GaN Market: Applications, Players, Technology, and Substrates 2018-2023' that by the end of 2017, the total RF GaN market was close to $380m.

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...

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...

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...

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...