News and Business5G will cover more than 20% of world population in 6 years, according to new Ericsson Mobility report. Communications giant Ericsson forecasts that there will be 1 billion 5G subscriptions for enhanced mobile broadband by 2023. This prediction is among the key statistics presented in the November edition of the Ericsson Mobility Report, released at […]
Applications and Research(pictured, left) In the TERRANOVA project, Fraunhofer IAF is focusing on the integration of wireless modules at the chip level. The image shows a functional prototype of a 300 GHz multichannel wireless system for further integration as a system-on-chip. The scientists demonstrated their research in the project TERRANOVA at the Productronica trade fair in Munich […]
Applications and ResearchPartners claim a “milestone” in 4G LTE advanced technologies. Verizon and Ericsson have announced that they have achieved another milestone in 4G LTE Advanced Technologies that will also serve as a stepping stone to 5G technology by completing their first deployment of FDD (Frequency Division Duplexing) Massive MIMO (Multiple Input – Multiple Output) on Verizon’s […]
News and BusinessItalian telco Wind Tre has extended its Fibre To The Home (FTTH) partnership with infrastructure provider Open Fiber. An existing agreement between the duo, which is already active in the first 13 Italian cities reached by Open Fiber’s fibre optics network, has now been extended to another 258 Italian cities (for a total of 271) […]
Applications and ResearchGroup will make significant investments in North America optical cable organisation to support the development of 5G. Prysmian Group, a significant operator in the energy and telecom cable systems industry, has been awarded a supply agreement from US telecom company Verizon Communications to support the company’s network expansion around a next-generation fibre platform that will […]
Applications and ResearchNokia has delivered radio equipment based on 5G technology to Finland’s Centre for Wireless Communications and the VTT Technical Research Centre. The arrival of the first 5G devices in Finland marks the continued long-lasting 5G test network cooperation between the network company Nokia and the research institutes. With the new demo equipment, VTT says it […]
Technologies and ProductsKeysight Technologies is this week demonstrating a wide range of first-to-market design, test and characterization solutions at IEEE Globecom 2016, which takes place in Washington D.C., between December 4th – 7th. Keysight’s technical experts will demonstrate the following products, solutions and services: 5G Trial System Modeling and Validation Keysight will show the pre-5G trial specification […]
News and BusinessAt the 2016 Global MBBF (Mobile Broadband Forum), Huawei demonstrated a 5G and LTE Dual Connectivity live demo with a 4K video on-demand service. The demo was based on Cloud RAN architecture with a 21Gbps single user peak throughput achieved. Huawei said this Cloud RAN-based 5G and LTE Dual Connectivity makes possible the fast deployment […]
Applications and ResearchThe next-generation fast wireless data transmission standard 5G is being tested in Berlin. The Senate Department for Economics and the Deutsche Telekom intend to cooperate in the setup of a test site. They will sign a contract with the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich Hertz Institute, HHI in Berlin over the next few days in […]
News and BusinessSwedish telecoms company and Nokia have announced that they have signed a cooperation agreement to accelerate the network evolution path to 5G. The aim is to secure early introduction of commercial 5G services to Sonera customers by leveraging on both companies advanced network development and Sonera’s deep customer knowledge. Sonera has reached a 4G population […]