Tag Archives: 5G

Of course, 5G is much more than the radio part and spectrum efficiency/use. It has a lot to do with network and service architecture. It is through a novel architecture that much lower latency can be achieved. It is the novel architecture that support the session management at the edges, …

Got a call yesterday from a Dutch journalist who was just back from an Ericsson presentation on 5G and wanted to know about 6G. Looks like Ericsson managed to make him curious on what might the future be like… We discussed a little bit the general evolution trends, since 6G …

I had the opportunity of discussing the wireless tower business with Oscar Cicchetti, who has a very in-depth knowledge of the telecom biz (he was head of a major Telecom Operator network infrastructure, head of international Biz and more recently head of a Tower Infrastructure company) and he made several …

5G is going to provide very high capacity, reaching 1Gbps in favourable situations, but this higher capacity is dependent on the use of millimetre waves (in the tens of GHz), and the reason is not in any magic coding, rather in the huge spectrum that can be associated to very …

In these last few months I have been monitoring the web for news on Augmented and Virtual Reality, trying to spot emerging trends. As it always happens in the first months of the new year you get plenty of forecasts in many market and technology segments and AR/Vr is no …

The digital transformation is shifting more and more value to the cyberspace (not because the cyberspace is -per sé- more valuable but because it is much more convenient to carry put business in the cyberspace, and as biz moves to the cyberspace this one gets more and more valuable). This, …

Extended phenotype modification – cognitive Improving alertness, focus is clearly contributing to improving the cognitive capability of a person (coffee is still playing a big role in this… ) but it is not really changing the rules of the game. However, in the last few years we have started to …

Over the last 150 years communication infrastructures have become more and more pervasive to the point that most of the time people no longer take notice. One is now becoming aware of a communications infrastructure in those rare situations where … there is no communications infrastructure. The increased processing capabilities, …

In Italy there are, as of January 2019, some 74,000 antennas covering the whole Country. As a matter of fact, there are many more antennas that go unaccounted for, the ones in private homes and offices sustaining WiFi communications, plus many more embedded in devices for short range communications, like …

Two days ago I published a post predicting that 6G will become reality around 2035, meaning that people will really start using it. Of course I am expecting labs demo and trials well before that, like it happened in the previous Gs and it is happening now with 5G. Yet, …