5G has been the talk of the town of the last 2 years, now it has lost a bit of its glitter as the hard issues of balancing economics with market willingness to pay are evident. It remains both a technology push and a marketing pressure (not a market pull). …
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OK, time to make sense of the title and in particular of the second part: … yet it is already here! The quest for bigger capacity Often we use capacity and speed interchangeably, yet they represent quite different things. The Amazon river has a huge “capacity” (209,000 cubic meter per …
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Robot A growing population of robots is turning into avid communications users. According to the latest statistics (World Robotics 2020) there are some 2.7 million industrial robots at work around the world in factories, in Singapore there is one robot for every 10 human workers in a factory. And, notice, industrial …
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7. Services that may require/benefit from 6G Every time a new wireless system is envisioned the hype on what that new system can mean starts. Amazing new services are foreseen, a good portion of them just inherited from the hype on the previous system and a few that are new …
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All considered it may be unsurprising that devices like smartphones are driving service evolution. What is more surprising is that they are also driving the “physical network” evolution! Watching the iPhone 12 presentation I noticed the statement of Hans Vestberg, Chairman and CEO of Verizon, stating that “5G just got …
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According to a market research published by ABI Research presented at their on line 5G Technology Summit on July 14-16 (you can watch the recording here) there will be a growing spending on private 5G networks (those serving factories, malls,…) in the coming year to the point that the yearly …
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Evolution from (tele) communication infrastructures to communications fabric – I The evolution of telecommunications infrastructures has followed the path of lower and lower hierarchy. From the very rigid structure of networks based on electromechanical exchanges (where the network structure dictates the routing of calls) to increased flexibility with electronic exchanges …
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Interestingly digitalisation/softwarization is happening not just at product/equipment level but also at system/network level. An airplane engine (turbine) has its digital twin, creating a digital model in the cyberspace that can be used in many ways, including the provisioning of information via virtual and augmented reality to designers, maintenance crew, …
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The new IEEE COMSOC Technical Committee Newsletter is out and you can read it here. It contains a number of very interesting technical articles and a short, candid, interview I gave on the present and future of communications. Whilst the articles may need a bit of technical savvy to be …
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Following on the previous posts looking at the “5 reasons why 5g is the Future“: 5. Communication and Collaboration The article claims that the increased speed offered by 5G will (better) support collaborative work, teleworking and will increase business effectiveness easing the access to big data and big data analytics. …
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