Brooklyn 5G Summit set for April 8-10
ATLANTA – A major question floated by industry insiders at the recent Competitive Carrier Association Global Expo: What is 5G, and when will it begin to appear? NYU Wireless, a research center within New York University, is attempting to answer that question and help define the next-generation wireless standard.
CableLabs is joining 11 other industry sponsors in supporting the research center, which is sponsored by Huawei, Samsung, L3 and others.
NYU Wireless is primarily focusing its research in opening up the potential of millimeter wave spectrum, which the Federal Communications Commission recently began exploring as a potential avenue for increasing available spectrum assets.
“The use of mmWave frequencies provides a viable solution meet the data-rates and speeds promised by 5G,” said Dan Rice, CableLabs’ SVP of network technology. “In order to ensure the most effective use of its capacity, it will require a ubiquitous wired network to offload data.
“The cable industry has invested a lot in its network and provides a robust and reliable platform for connecting wireless cells to the Internet.,” he continued. “Collaborating with NYU Wireless enables us to solve the technical challenges of mmWave frequencies for the next generation of wireless broadband.”
NYU Wireless Director Theodore Rappaport said CableLabs’ sponsorship “is exciting not only because of the depth of research insight it brings, but because it illustrates just how quickly technology leaders are embracing the drive to 5G.”
NYU Wireless is hosting the second Brooklyn 5G Summit, set for April 8-10 and focused on spectrum assets above 6 GHz, channel modeling, massive MIMO and beamforming as it relates to 5G.
Ericsson and carrier SK Telecom are planning the first 5G demo during the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
A major research and development step for 5G came in February when researchers at the University of Surrey in the United Kingdom announced achieving a 1 Tbps transfer speed in a restrictive laboratory setting.
