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the Light Reading Big 5G Event in Denver - May 2019
https://www.forbes.com/sites/moorinsights/2019/05/13/what-was-big-at-the-big-5g-event/
Why 5G
“5G’s promise of lightning-fast throughput and low latency”
5G is poised to be disruptive and woven into all fabrics of society
Verizon’s Nicki Palmer summed it up during her keynote at the Big 5G Event this month.
She believes that within the next three years, connected devices could reach three times the world’s population.
The current 4G LTE networks can’t scale to support that onslaught of connectivity - 5G can.
Jason Proctor from CBC news in Canada summarises the 5G narrative quite well.
It is estimated that by 2020 between 50 billion and 100 billion devices worldwide are expected to be connected to the internet with the ability to communicate seamlessly with no latency. (Lag between sending and receiving).
5G will have enough bandwidth to revolutionise entertainment, health care and education - it will enable the “Internet of Things” , Virtual Reality or Augmented Reality.
Uses will include self-driving cars, remote-controlled thermostats and drones — connected to the internet.
Our devices will be able to communicate directly with each other, essentially cutting humans out of the equation.
The players at the conference included
- Ian Campbell, CTO for Cisco Systems’
- Mishka Dehghan, Sprint’s executive lead for 5G services
- Nicki Palmer, Verizon’s Chief Networking Officer, highlighted location-based services,
- Huawei CTO Paul Scanlan and Joy Tan, who leads corporate communications for the company
All shared their excitement and benefits of 5 G which included
- roaming,
- Internet download speeds multiple times faster,
- I o T - communication with many more devices at once,
- the ability to send and receive information closer to real time than ever before.
- Households will be altered through inter-connectivity of equipment,
- Industries made more timely and cost-effective,
- the economy from banking to shopping will be transformed
- improved stadium connectivity/
- back office support, and
- factory automation.
- network slicing,
- virtualization,
- cloudification,
- the leverage of open APIs.
- Smart City implementation - transport and city management will be revolutionised - improving public safety,
- Driverless cars with 5G making possible the superfast sending of precision data between vehicles so that they do not collide and they can communicate with road sensors and traffic lights and surveillance drones.
- Systems will alert police when accidents occur, traffic moves smoothly through integrated signals that keep track of flows, and emergency vehicles arrive as quickly as possible through not being held up by red lights.
- distance learning.
- gaming, and
- healthcare - example - long-distance surgery with robots, a surgeon implanting a stimulation device into the brain of a Parkinson’s disease patient in Beijing using robotic arms controlled from about 3,000km away.
The importance of security of networks
Security of networks to keep them safe from hackers will be no different with 5G than the present 4G.
Systems and equipment, no matter who makes them or where they are from, will need to be constantly checked and monitored and improved.
Given the importance of 5G to the future, governments and companies need to share and cooperate.
Mr. Scanlan’s response to the concerns that Huawei may share subscriber data with the Chinese government.
He pointed out that data ownership and management resides with carriers, not equipment providers, who are bound by privacy laws within each particular region of the world.
A tour of the Huawei’s Independent Cybersecurity Lab in Shenzhen revealed over 240 international security certifications and a multi-layered internal audit protocol for discovering “backdoors” and vetoing product launches independently of its consumer, carrier, and enterprise business units (with documented stops and product cancellations in the past).
Huawei is working hard to allay the concerns of the rest of the world with not only its cybersecurity lab but also by inviting the media to tour its headquarters.
These efforts could be paying off given Huawei started in the telecommunications industry over 30 years ago and in a relatively short amount of time built a $50B consumer business.
This was led by impressive smartphone designs with an emphasis on professional-like camera capabilities and in parallel has created an enterprise switch and router business approaching $10B and growing at an impressive clip.
Bottom line - 5G is coming and Australia should be riding this wave with Huawei
You should also read https://australianinnovation.blogspot.com/2019/05/5g-fifth-generation-of-wireless.html
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5G - the fifth generation of wireless technology is coming
Jason Proctor from CBC news in Canada summarises the 5G narrative quite well.
The Technology Generations
The first generation — 1G — was introduced in the 1980s with wireless phones that had almost no ability to transmit data.
The next generation occurred a decade later with better sound quality, security and capacity. Email and text became widespread.
3G brought global roaming and higher-speed transmission, allowing for more widespread connectivity and movement with devices.
4G allowed phone users to surf the internet, stream music, access social media, post videos and use a wide variety of apps on smartphones.
5G "will be a game changer in wireless telecommunications, ushering in a network for future generations with more devices, faster communication, and higher speeds."
Current 4G mobile networks can offer speeds of about 45Mbps (megabits per second) on average and experts say 5G could achieve browsing and downloads up to 20 times faster.
Connectivity - Internet of Things
It is estimated that by 2020 between 50 billion and 100 billion devices worldwide are expected to be connected to the internet with the ability to communicate seamlessly with no latency. (Lag between sending and receiving).
5G will have enough bandwidth to revolutionise entertainment, health care and education - it will enable the “Internet of Things” , Virtual Reality or Augmented Reality.
Uses will include self-driving cars, remote-controlled thermostats and drones — connected to the internet.
Our devices will be able to communicate directly with each other, essentially cutting humans out of the equation.
What does 5G mean to Canada
The Accenture report estimates that Canada's wireless operators are expected to invest $26 billion deploying 5G infrastructure between 2020 and 2026, having already spent about $17.6 billion in spectrum auctions.
Accenture claims the payoff in that same time will be a lift of about $40 billion a year to Canada's gross domestic product as well as the creation of 250,000 permanent jobs.
Some of the Benefits to the economy
Farmers will use sensors for soil, crops and livestock maintenance. "Smart irrigation" alone is expected to save blueberry farmers $270 million a year.
The Oil industry will use sensors that allow for "predictive maintenance"
All industries will benefit from a reduction in unplanned downtime and reduction in the risk of catastrophic disasters associated with equipment or facilities failures from human error.
The 3 players
Nokia, Ericsson and Huawei are the leading firms in the field.
Whose banning Huawei and whose not
The possibility of a Chinese company having access to the core of Western telecommunications systems has raised concerns - resulting in USA excluding Huawei from contracts with the American government or its contractors.
The Australian government has also banned the company from its 5G networks.
The United Kingdom has banned Huawei from core parts of the British communications network,
Dutch telecom giant Royal KPN NV has said it will use a Western supplier to build the core 5G mobile network.
Germany, Poland most Asian Countries and the 3rd world have refused to follow suit.
Huawei maintains its independence from the Chinese state.
What’s the Issue?
Will the organisation that provides the underlying technology “control the infrastructure of that network? “
Do the manufacturers and builders have this control or the telecommunication companies who manage the networks?
5G is coming regardless.
Huawei has the technology and the IP and will control a good number of these networks. By definition, the United States is going to have to connect into those networks because you can't have a global communications system where American or European equipment doesn't talk to Chinese equipment.
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ABOUT Jason Proctor
@proctor_jason
Jason Proctor is a reporter in British Columbia for CBC News and has covered the B.C. courts and mental health issues in the justice system extensively.
You should also read https://australianinnovation.blogspot.com/2019/05/the-light-reading-big-5g-event-in.html
And
https://australianinnovation.blogspot.com/2019/04/heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-5g.html