The United Nations steps in to define 5G, ending a marketing war - caudlebude1972

With mobile operators' marketing departments already throwing around claims some their 5G services, the Coalesced Nations is weighing in with its definition of what qualifies a network as next-generation.

Verizon Receiving set bequeath begin delivering "5G" divine service to select users in 11 U.S. cities in middle-2017, even though many places don't yet have access to 4G. And at the Mobile Globe Congress 2017 trade picture in Barcelona, companies including Intel, Qualcomm and Ericsson will be promoting their moves towards 5G.

But what First Baron Marks of Broughton the difference between one contemporaries of wandering applied science and the next?

In that respect are 13 technical requirements for next-coevals networks on the draft list published by the International Telecommunication Union, the UN agency that sets rules for radiocommunication spectrum usage and telecommunications interoperability.

Among the requirements are peak download speeds of up to 20 gigabits per second and peak upload speeds of in the lead to 10 Gbps.

We all know that those "up to" speeds are rarely seen outside the marketing department, so the ITU has helpfully set dead what we should expect to find in the real world. Users should receive normal download speeds of 100 megabits per second, and typical upload speeds of 50 Mbps, it said.

When things get truly busy, it also wants networks to follow healthy to present a minimum level of serving even when at that place are 1 million connected devices per square kilometer (2.59 million per square mile), handy for texting from jammed statesmanly inaugurations or keeping tabs on the worst excesses of IoT clutter around your home.

It also calls for networks to offer minimum levels of service to people moving at different speeds, and sets impossible different service level requirements for users depending on whether they are stationary, walk, or in a fomite. In dense urban environments it doesn't expect those vehicles to exceed 30 km/h, but in rural areas it sets two armed service levels for vehicles: those traveling 'tween 10 and 120 kilometres per hour, and those traveling up to 500 km/h. If anyone ever builds a hyperloop (the average speed of which is expected to approach 1,000 kilometres per hour), net accession will not be guaranteed aboard.

After that, things get a lot Sir Thomas More technical, with minimum requirements for spectrum availability, traffic density and several measures of spectral efficiency.

Those requirements are all fine and dandy, but unfortunately for the nonplused consumer, the ITU's muster in written report is titled "Tokenish requirements related to method performance for IMT-2020 radio interface(s)" and makes no credit to 5G, although that's what it really means.

The ITU has a story of choosing such esoteric name calling: IMT-2020 is the fall out-along to its "IMT-Advanced" stipulation, known to the rest of the world as 4G, which was itself preceded by IMT-2000, more wide known as 3G.

The 2020 in the title refers to the year the ITU expects the IMT-2020, or 5G, specification to be ready.

Standardization play isn't just sledding on at the ITU: The Third base Generation Partnership Project or 3GPP is working on a "5G" spec that it intends to submit to the ITU away October 2020, and earlier this month unveiled ace of the first deliverables, a new logo.

3GPP

The Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP)'s "5G" logo.

If you see it on a phone before the ending of 2018 though, when 3GPP plans to publish the first release of its specification, then it's probably a fake.

Source: https://www.pcworld.com/article/412170/un-steps-in-to-end-marketing-war-over-what-5g-means.html

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