{"id":100368,"date":"2017-01-05T10:04:01","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T15:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/?p=100368"},"modified":"2017-01-05T07:04:49","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T12:04:49","slug":"why-5g-wireless-technology-is-buzzing-in-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/2017\/01\/why-5g-wireless-technology-is-buzzing-in-las-vegas\/","title":{"rendered":"Why 5G Wireless Technology Is Buzzing in Las Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"
January 5, 2017<\/div>
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By WallStreetDaily.com<\/u><\/a> \"Why<\/p>\n

We\u2019re going to hear some big things about fifth-generation wireless technology at this week\u2019s CES 2017 in Las Vegas. And 5G is a big deal. Indeed, there\u2019ll be no IoT without it.<\/strong><\/i><\/p>\n

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This type of innovation may not immediately change humanity forever or even save a life in the short term.<\/p>\n

But it will allow us to download full-length feature films in seconds, rather than minutes.<\/p>\n

And eventually, it will be the single most important development in the history of the Internet of Things.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m talking today about fifth-generation \u2014 or 5G \u2014 wireless technology.<\/p>

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It\u2019s the dominant topic at the 50th annual Consumer Electronics Show, now underway in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

In the very near future, 5G will amaze with its speed and amuse with what it will deliver to our many connected devices.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not a cure for cancer or an autonomous android, but sometimes convenient advancements are enough: You can, indeed, help make the world a better place by making the common folk a little bit happier.<\/p>\n

And this jump in wireless speed is actually much more than merely incremental.<\/p>\n

In 2015, Verizon Communications Inc.<\/strong> (VZ) reported laboratory tests that produced download rates of 1 gigabit per second \u2014 about 30\u201350 times faster than its current state-of-the-art \u201clong-term evolution\u201d 4G technology.<\/p>\n

Last February, a field test revealed a 5G connection of 3.77 gigabits per second, which is 377 times faster than 4G LTE.<\/p>\n

This type of innovation may not immediately change humanity forever or even save a life in the short term.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

And only yesterday, Bloomberg<\/em> reported that AT&T Inc.<\/strong> (T) has hit an astounding 14 gigabits a second in the lab.<\/p>\n

Theory puts the upper limit of 5G at about 100 times faster than 4G.<\/p>\n

The industry also expects 5G deployments to result in lower costs for consumers. As Bloomberg\u2019s Scott Moritz reports:<\/p>\n

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Through a collaboration with a dozen partners including Intel Corp., Ericsson AB, and Qualcomm Inc., AT&T plans to use experimental airwaves to test fifth-generation or 5G residential and business services as a potentially cheaper method than fiber-optic cable for high-capacity connections, said John Donovan, AT&T\u2019s chief strategy officer.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam sees his company\u2019s \u201cwireless fiber\u201d 5G technology being deployed at roughly half the cost of its previous FiOS platform.<\/p>\n

Now, that\u2019s some serious happy talk. A better product at a cheaper price, from a group of companies notorious for nickeling-and-diming subscribers?<\/p>\n

As my mom used to say when I asked for some fanciful new toy, \u201cWe\u2019ll see.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the same time, the potential of 5G connectivity is enormous.<\/p>\n

Indeed, it\u2019s the type of enabling technology that will drive major advancements for autonomous (or self-driving) vehicles, including cars and airplanes, as well as streaming virtual reality and the Internet of Things.<\/p>\n

It is the key to constant and ubiquitous connectivity.<\/p>\n

Verizon and AT&T expect to move from lab and field tests to actual 5G deployments during 2017. In fact, AT&T\u2019s DirecTV unit aims to use its technology to deliver DirecTV Now to customers in Austin, Texas, by this summer.<\/p>\n

Indeed, it\u2019s the type of enabling technology that will drive major advancements for autonomous (or self-driving) vehicles, including cars and airplanes, as well as streaming virtual reality and the Internet of Things.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Among the major hurdles to broad deployment are getting access to more radio spectrum and finding new ways to incorporate innovative antenna designs into 5G devices.<\/p>\n

The former requires cooperation of the federal government, though in July 2016, the Federal Communications Commission did make available a big block of spectrum in bands higher than currently used (including 28 gigahertz, 37 gigahertz, and 39 gigahertz) specifically to spur development of 5G tech.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re going to need a lot more spectrum, however, based on the fact that deployment of 4G drove 4,000-fold growth in data traffic in the 10 years ended 2015.<\/p>\n

Access to more spectrum will allow companies to move wireless traffic to higher-frequency bands that aren\u2019t as crowded as those between 30 megahertz and 3 gigahertz, where 3G and 4G compete with radio and TV broadcasts.<\/p>\n

It will amaze and amuse\u2026 and it might just be support the kind of Big Data-driven projects that change humanity forever and save many, many lives.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Antenna innovation is already happening, as Elena Malykhina of Scientific American<\/em> reports:<\/p>\n

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New antenna designs by companies including telecommunications equipment maker Qualcomm will enable mobile devices to send and receive signals in higher-frequency ranges. Antenna size is inversely proportional to frequency size \u2014 higher-frequency signals require smaller antennas, says Mustafa Cenk Gursoy, an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Syracuse University. As a result, device makers will be able to place multiple antennas throughout their 5G devices to improve reception and try to make up for millimeter waves\u2019 weaker signal strength.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

We still have to address the massive security problems inherent in the IoT. But the cavalry may be on the way, in the form of an add-on chip designed by Microchip Technology Inc.<\/strong> (MCHP) with the support of Amazon.com Inc.<\/strong> (AMZN).<\/p>\n

Microchip describes the AWS-ECC508 as \u201cthe industry\u2019s first end-to-end security solution for Internet of Things (IoT) devices that connect to the Amazon Web Services\u2019 (AWS) cloud.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yes, right now it\u2019s limited to those who connect with Amazon. But it does \u201cbake in\u201d security.<\/p>\n

And 2017 might also be the year that quantum computing, like 5G, makes it out of the experimental phase and onto the market. Quantum computing, as we wrote in the October 31, 2016, Wall Street Daily<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, may be another step toward a \u201chack-proof network.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reports Davide Castelvecchi of Nature:<\/em><\/p>\n

Computing giants Google and Microsoft recently hired a host of leading lights, and have set challenging goals for this year. Their ambition reflects a broader transition taking place at startups and academic research labs alike: to move from pure science toward engineering.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople are really building things,\u201d says Christopher Monroe, a physicist at the University of Maryland in College Park who co-founded the startup IonQ in 2015. \u201cI\u2019ve never seen anything like that. It\u2019s no longer just research.\u201d<\/p>\n

The future is 5G. It is the force that will support the 20\u2013200 billion devices expected to be connected to the internet by 2020.<\/p>\n

It will amaze and amuse\u2026 and it might just be support the kind of Big Data-driven projects that do, indeed, change humanity forever and save many, many lives.<\/p>\n

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