Commercial Licenses For 5G Will Soon Be Granted In China

 

China will soon issue 5G licenses for commercial use, the country's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said on Monday.

"China started 5G research experiments in 2016, and entered the third stage of system verification this year," Wen Ku, head of the MIIT information and communication department, said at the ongoing first Digital China Summit in Fuzhou, capital of southeast China's Fujian Province. 

Wen said device manufacturers such as Huawei and Ericsson had participated in the development of 5G products to help create a complete 5G industrial chain.

China has launched 5G cooperation mechanisms with Japan, the Republic of Korea, the European Union and the United States, with international companies joining the research and development, he said. 

China will apply 5G technology to terminal devices as early as the second half of 2019, leading to the primary commercialization of the technology in the near future, according to an official with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).

Source(s): Xinhua News Agency

Ericsson and Deutsche Telekom Breaks 100Gbps Barrier Over Line of Sight MIMO Microwave Link

1. Wireless backhaul confirmed as a future-proof technology in 5G era
2. Microwave link over 1.5km in live trial achieves 10 times greater throughput than current commercial solutions 
3. Joint innovation project used Ericsson’s latest mobile transport technology

German Telecom giant Deutsche Telekom (DT) and Ericsson have concluded a ground breaking data transmission trial, Reaching beyond 100 Gbps  data stream, consistently through a Line of Sight MIMO microwave link at distance of 1.5 km.
The trial was conducted at the Deutsche Telekom Service Center in Athens, Greece, demonstrated the potential of applying spectral efficient techniques like MIMO on wireless backhaul technologies that will address the demands of 5G radios, backup for fiber links and even closing gaps in fiber rings when a physical fiber cable is not feacible.

“Advanced backhaul solutions will be needed to support high data throughput and enhanced customer experience in the 5G era. This milestone confirms the feasibility of microwave over millimeter wave spectrum as an important extension of our portfolio of high-capacity, high-performance transport options for the 5G era. In addition, it represents a game changing solution for future fronthauling capabilities.” said  Alex Jinsung Choi, SVP Strategy & Technology Innovation at Deutsche Telekom.

He was joined by  Per Narvinger, Head of Product Area Networks, Ericsson, who echoed: ”This trial signifies the successful establishment of true fiber capacities over the air using microwave.  This means that microwave will be even more relevant for communications service providers in creating redundant networks as a back-up for fiber, or as a way of closing a fiber ring when fiber is not a viable solution. By carrying such high capacities, microwave further establishes itself as a key transport technology, capable of delivering the performance requirements of 5G.”

Technical details

Key technological advances included an 8x8 line-of-sight MIMO (LOS) with cross polarization interference cancellation setup using commercial MINI-LINK 6352 radios and a 2.5 GHz channel bandwidth in the E-band (70/80 GHz) able to transmit eight independent data streams over the radio path. This corresponds to a breakthrough spectrum efficiency of 55.2 bps/Hz at peak. During the mid-April trial, transmission rates measures were consistently above 100 Gbps, with telecom grade availability (higher than 99.995 percent), with peak rates reaching 140 Gbps.

In late 2018, Ericsson and Deutsche Telekom broke the 40Gbps barrier fully using commercial equipment including Ericsson’s MINI-LINK 6352 solution, which currently provides 10Gbps capacity over a 2000MHz channel. To raise throughput by more than 10 times, this trial used a 2500MHz channel and pre-commercial baseband and MIMO processing equipment in addition to MINI-LINK 6352 radios.

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Qualcomm's Snapdragon 855 Processor Will Rule The Android Phone World In 2019.

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Currently on going annual Snapdragon Technology Summit in Hawaii, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM), brought together big guns of the  mobile world together. Among those who were present were, AT&T, EE, Telstra and Verizon as well as global infrastructure provider Ericsson and global network infrastructure and mobile device leader Samsung. Also in the front seats were the device makers Motorola, NETGEAR and Inseego, who were there to introduce the first commercial 5G mobile platform, Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 855 Mobile Platform.
Snapdragon 855 Unveiled as the First Commercial 5G Mobile Platform to Enable Commercial 5G Networks and Mobile Devices in Early 2019, featuring Multi-Gigabit 5G Connectivity that will lead to other advancements like AI, computational photography, and Mobile gaming.

“Today marks a massive and exciting step forward underscoring how Qualcomm Technologies and ecosystem leaders are driving 5G commercialization, a journey that went from R&D, accelerated standardization and trials, the launch of innovative products and technologies, to the imminent launch of 5G networks and smartphones across the globe starting in early 2019,  Together we are demonstrating our role in transforming the mobile industry and enriching consumer experiences with 5G mobile devices on live 5G networks at this year’s Qualcomm Snapdragon Technology Summit.” said Cristiano Amon, president, Qualcomm Incorporated.

Injecting AI in more places in phones has been an ongoing trend for a few years and Qualcomm has tripled the AI performance with the 855 chip. A more powerful AI Engine should improve everything from advanced camera features (like object and scene detection or processing depth-of-field for portrait mode photos) to making digital assistants more responsive, and more. The improved AI engine in the 855, will also improve AR and mixed-reality capabilities of the phones. Phones like the Google Pixel 3 will be able to even further develop computational photography to provide what it is already providing with Night Sight, a mode that takes night shots and literally turns them into photos that look like they were shot during the day.

Mobile gaming is becoming as big as the console games and continues to grow with more people playing performance-taxing games like Fortnite on the phones leading more companies to release game-centric phones, Qualcomm's 855 will bring the ground works necessary for improving the experience.