Cisco Systems, Intel and Ericsson are working together to create what officials for the companies are saying will be the industry’s first 5G router.
The companies made the announcement Feb. 22 at theMobile World Congress (MWC) 2016 show in Barcelona, Spain, saying the router could help accelerate the pace of innovation around 5G, the next generation of cellular networking that is expected to bring up to 100 times the speed of current 4G networks and handle the rapid increase in the numbers of connected devices, the growing Internet of things (IoT) and the rising presence of video on mobile networks.
