5G data networks: how science fiction becomes reality

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Yes, this is almost a brain explosion, but after 3 years at the Winter Olympics in Korean Pyeongchang, we will be able to see the current 5G network and correlate our predictions with reality.

The organizers promise speeds up to 20 Gbps. And this is just the beginning. The next step will be the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, followed by the first commercial 5G networks, which are expected to serve more than a million devices over 1 km² at an average speed of over 100 Mbps.

For comparison: the peak speed of the LTE network is 150 Mbps, that is, 136 times lower than the minimum speed declared for 5G networks

One of the main consequences of the creation of 5G networks will be the emergence of the "Internet of Things". It is possible that the recently announced restructuring of Google is just aimed at preparing for the transition of the search giant to a new quality - distributed over millions of Alphabet devices.

Michelle Burke Marketing Manager, Future Insights The emergence of 5G will accelerate the transition to IoT, the Internet of Things. It is difficult to imagine how the world will change at such speeds. Self-driving cars will become commonplace. Imagine sensors that will understand that you will wake up in 5 minutes, and will instruct the coffee maker to make coffee, and much more. The possibilities are endless.

Ivan Vorobyov Head of the Information and Advertising Department of the Research Institute of Radio In the 5G world, we will meet not only new services, but also the evolution of existing ones. The development of video transmission technologies will continue. We are already watching the video, but the quality will grow, the cost of delivery will fall. As technology advances and resolution grows, we will move to 3D. Next, there will be a transition to holographic broadcasting of video content, to augmented reality. This will require gigabit speeds.

Sergey Vyazankin Lead Product Manager, Intelin Company We will see an increase in the number of devices connected to the Internet by 10-100 times. Anything will be connected to the Network: from means of transport to household appliances and clothing, and the number of simultaneous connections will be able to reach 100 billion. In this regard, the consumption of traffic by users will grow at least a thousand times.

Other striking features of 5G networks include the haptic Internet. Taking into account the development of wearable electronics, it will allow you to actually emulate physical interaction with web resources through augmented reality. It is assumed that in the distant future this will become the main mode of interaction.

Another interesting feature of the 5G world is Service Intelligence (SI) technology.

Ivan Vorobyov Head of the Information and Advertising Department of the Radio Research Institute SI technologies based on the processing of large amounts of data will develop in such a way that not only the individual knowledge of the user, but also his general preferences, public opinion from social networks (SNS), information surrounding the user from internet and so on will be comprehensively analyzed in real time in a format customized according to the specific needs of the user and circumstances.

But everything described above is still really fantastic. The reality looks different. In mid-July, Geneva hosted the final meeting of the Global IoT Standards Initiative hosted by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The next step is to standardize 5G networks. This is the main issue that is currently holding back the development of 5G networks, and the same Koreans act at their own peril and risk.

The International Telecommunication Union recently published 5G for the development of mobile communications and defined its name - “IMT-2020”. The challenge for the near future is to develop detailed performance requirements for 5G radio systems and identify "candidate radio interface technologies that will be part of the IMT-2020 family."

Albert Aliyev Executive Director Fun-Box It is not known what kind of technology that is being developed now will be announced as a new stable standard. But it is clear that some developers are speculating on this, calling 5G their own development. Indeed, experts consider the support of speeds of more than 1 Gbit / s as a basic requirement for the new technology. That is, if someone succeeds in creating a technology that supports such a data transfer rate for mobile devices, then this technology may be recognized as the 5G standard. But this is not the only criterion. If hair falls out from this technology during a conversation, then, despite the speed, it is not standardized.

As with any new technology, 5G networks are expensive. The bill goes into hundreds of billions of dollars, and this is no joke. Apparently, the introduction of 5G will only take place in the most demanded places.

And what about Russia? In Russia, they still cannot convert frequencies for 4G.

Nadezhda Gryaznova Marketing Director of CTI Company The timing of the construction of 5G networks in Russia depends on what innovations will be introduced into the standards and how fast traffic in Russian networks will grow, since the main change will be an increase in bandwidth. Another factor affecting the time frame is the frequencies that will be needed to deploy the networks. As we remember, the conversion of frequencies for 4G in Russia continues to this day.

Well what can I say? And it would be great to surprise the whole world with the 5G network for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

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