It was a busy week for T&M announcements coming out of Mobile World Congress Barcelona, as well as vendors looking ahead to next week’s OFC conference on optical communications.
Here are some of the highlights:
-Anritsu announced a demo this week focused on taking steps toward enabling ultra-reliabile low-latency communications in 5G, or URLLC. One of the things that takes up time in communications is the handover period between cells — as the test company explains, “current handover procedures have a Handover Interruption Time (HIT) of 30 ms – 60 ms, during which a mobile terminal cannot transmit or receive user data.” But URLLC demands latency of 1 millisecond or less, so that HIT time has to be drastically shortened.
