Tag: 5G

March 31, 2020

5G officially arrived this year. In certain parts of the US, it’s already providing AT&T users with upload speeds as fast as 500 megabytes per second and significantly reduced latency. It reached South Korea in 2018, and was launched in […]

March 27, 2020

Dynamic spectrum sharing is widely viewed as a key short-term enabler of scaling out 5G networks quickly. Rather than the slow, expensive process of re-farming spectrum from one generation connectivity technology to the next, DSS lets operators operate LTE and […]

March 27, 2020

As part of its efforts to “empower the telecommunications industry as it continues its move to 5G,” Microsoft has confirmed the acquisition of cloud-based 5G service vendor Affirmed Network for an undisclosed amount. Microsoft expects the acquisition to allow the […]

March 26, 2020

While mobile operators have been evangelizing 5G for the last decade, 2019 was the year that 5G network deployments actually started to become a reality. But there continue to be several unknowns about how 5G will actually work and if […]

March 25, 2020

As the story goes, fully-virtualized, standalone 5G networks will provide tailored slices in support of enterprise services whatever that may entail–handling huge data volumes from sensors, providing high reliability and ultra low latency for precision robotics, or robust campus connectivity […]

March 25, 2020

In a conversation that took place a few weeks ago, Ericsson’s Peter Linder, head of 5G marketing in North America, told RCR Wireless News that there is a great deal of momentum behind the development of 5G devices. Further, according […]

March 24, 2020

According to Kashif Hussain, director of marketing at VIAVI Solutions, 5G adoption won’t happen to the desired extent until the right devices are in place. Fortunately, there appears to be a great deal of global momentum behind 5G device development […]

March 23, 2020

At the beginning of February, I traveled to Cisco Live Barcelona and presented our Cisco Annual Internet Report tools at the launch zone as a pre-launch activity with our top-tier customers. Since then, working remotely and collaborating over video conferencing […]

March 20, 2020

A consummate theme of telecom discussions is the desperate need for additional spectrum dedicated to mobile services; in the context of 5G, that refrain tends to focus on mid-band spectrum, which strikes a valuable balance between coverage and capacity. Good […]

March 18, 2020

With so many wireless technologies available — including up-and-comers Wi-Fi 6, private LTE (CBRS band), and 5G — selecting the right one for your industrial IoT deployment can present quite a challenge. Over the past 30 years, many access technologies […]