5G/6G

A series of new training courses on LTE Advanced Pro has been launched by Nomor Research, extending the existing LTE and LTEAdvanced course portfolio. In the first half of 2017, a set of public courses have been scheduled with its partner organisations, the Carl-Cranz-Gesellschaft e.V. Germany and the Continuing Education Institute - Europe providing latest updates on 3GPP Rel.13/14 standardisation.

Leti, a research institute of CEA Tech, announced it will deploy a 5G framework on the MINATEC campus in Grenoble to demonstrate a new post-OFDM (orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing) multicarrier waveform. Leti recently was granted a six-month license from Arcep, France’s telecommunications regulatory agency, to run a field trial with multiservice transmission at 3.5 GHz TDD band with 40MHz bandwidth. 3.5GHz might be the first c...

  It has been announced that Qualcomm Technologies, Ericsson, and SK Telecom, plan to conduct interoperability testing and over-the-air field trials based on 5G New Radio (NR) as standards are being developed based on specifications in 3GPP.

Professor William Webb, Deputy Chair at CW (Cambridge Wireless) and CEO of the Weightless SIG, has published his latest book that debunks the need and business case for 5G.

Qualcomm Technologies has introduced its first 5G New Radio (NR) spectrum sharing prototype system and trial platform. The industry is designing 5G NR to get the most out of spectrum available across all spectrum types –licensed, unlicensed and shared spectrum – and across spectrum from lower bands (sub-6 GHz) to high bands in the mmWave range.

The Government’s commitment to invest £1bn to support the private sector roll-out of full-fibre broadband by 2020-21 and trials of 5G mobile communications has been welcomed by CW (Cambridge Wireless). These commitments were announced in yesterday’s Autumn Statement to Parliament by Chancellor Philip Hammond. 

  Steve Mollenkopf, CEO of Qualcomm, will give the keynote address at CES 2017 which will run from 5th-8th January in Las Vegas.

The development of 5G technologies aimed at increasing data rate of wireless communication networks by a factor of 100 imposes stringent specifications (large bandwidth, high gain, small size and temperature independent performance) on the design of the Radio Frequency (RF) electronics. Authors: S. Keyrouz, D. Caratelli and D. Favreau, Antenna Company

QuantumStream technology, a class of high-performance connectivity architecture has been unveiled by Aquantia, and has the potential to revolutionise next gen hyperscale data centres. QuantumStream technology, developed by Aquantia through a strategic collaboration with GLOBALFOUNDRIES, is creating the world’s first 100Gbit/s all-electrical technology delivering low latency to networking applications. 

A subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, Qualcomm Technologies, has announced the Qualcomm Snapdragon X50 5G modem, making Qualcomm the first company to announce a commercial 5G modem chipset. It is designed to support Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) that are building the next generation of cellular devices, as well as aid operators with early 5G trials and deployments.