In a duration of just five years,
established industry forecasters are predicting the first commercial
deployments of 5G (5th Generation) networks. As of now, there is no
5G standard around and the world’s several standards bodies are working unanimously
on a vision set for 5G.
Besides that, several companies
are already gearing their efforts on 5G and are establishing the criteria for
what they aspire 5G to be. Going by the Chinese vendor Huawei, it will conduct
a 5G trial while the FIFA World Cup runs in 2018 with MegaFon, a Russian
operator. In the beginning of this year, SK Telecom also signed a MoU
(Memorandum of understanding) with Nokia in a venture to conduct research and
development jointly on 5G, which also is ultimately aimed at testing the
technology in 2018 and then commercially launching it in 2020.
So for of those who are
inquisitive about the upcoming technological developments, the question is how
will 5G be different from 4G? Many experts claim that 5G will not necessarily
be an air interface enhancement, which was the case with 3G and 4G. Instead, 5G
will involve LTE-Advanced characteristics and collaborate with other
technologies such as the millimeter wave, Wi-Fi and more.
Perhaps more important than the
5G technological specifications is the vision, which foresees a stage where all
machines are wirelessly connected to other machines and mission-critical apps
are prioritized over less-critical communications. The download speeds with 5G
are expected to outdo 20 Gbps and the latency mere milliseconds.
The top tech experts in the world
will talk at length about the next big thing in technology at the Mobile World
Congress trade show in Barcelona, Spain on Tuesday, March 4. The group of
speakers for the panel will include Adam Koeppe, VP of network planning and
strategy at Verizon Communications, Tom Keathley, SVP of network planning and
products at AT&T and various other bigwigs of the telecom industry.
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