In the evolving landscape of telecommunications, Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) is emerging as a cornerstone technology that aims to transform how networks operate and serve mobile users. As part of the upcoming 6G era and IMT-2030 vision, ISAC holds immense potential to revolutionize cellular network capabilities. It combines communication functions with precise sensing, positioning, and tracking.
Antenna optimization plays a vital role in an ever-connected world. With 5G adoption and data generation skyrocketing, optimizing network performance is top-of-mind for enterprises and industries. Although 5G offers unprecedented bandwidth capacities and unlocks new use cases, it also requires 3X more energy to match the same coverage as a 4G/Long Term Evolution (LTE) network. Therefore, the telecommunications industry craves innovative ways to squeeze more network performance from less hardware.
Working in a competitive industry demands that you become a data-driven organization. As a technology solution provider, effectively leveraging data can unlock significant advantages, such as driving market expansion and fostering innovation. Unfortunately, all too many companies lack an analytical approach to decision-making.
Over the years, the telecommunications industry has experienced growing demand for a more open Radio Access Network (RAN) architecture that promotes interoperability between different vendor components. Vendors’ answer to this demand is the advent of End-to-End (E2E), cloud-native Open RAN solutions, which means mobile service providers no longer have to worry about vendor lock-in. While still in its infancy—accounting for just 6% to 8% of the total RAN market by the end of 2024—Open RAN holds immense potential, and huge vendor names are capitalizing on this.
Every week, countless technology stories emerge across industries around the world. However, identifying and reading each development can be challenging while balancing your other day-to-day tasks. But if you want to stay ahead in your industry and evaluate the most promising technology solutions for your organization, it’s vital to keep up with the latest and greatest tech.
The year 2024 will mark the fourth one since 5G networks launched commercially, now well deployed in both developed and developing countries and representing a major advancement in user experience, energy efficiency, and network functionality, setting the stage for future technologies. Its introduction, particularly through Massive Multiple Input, Multiple Output (mMIMO), has greatly enhanced consumer applications, providing most users with high-speed, quality mobile broadband.
5G Massive Multiple Input, Multiple Output (mMIMO) is one of the biggest breakthroughs in wireless communications. It broadens mobile network coverage, expands data capacity, and provides a top-tier user experience for mobile users. Massive MIMO is quickly becoming a staple in the telecommunications industry, with ABI Research forecasting just shy of 47 million radio shipments annually by 2027.
On September 19, 2023, AST SpaceMobile announced a historic milestone: the successful completion of the first-ever 5G connection for both voice and data transmission between an ordinary, unmodified smartphone and a space satellite. The company's engineers showcased this space-based 5G connectivity by initiating a call from Maui, Hawaii, United States, to a Vodafone engineer situated in Madrid, Spain. This remarkable feat was accomplished using AT&T's Band 5/850 Megahertz (MHz) spectrum and AST SpaceMobile's BlueWalker 3 (BW3) test satellite—the largest-ever commercial communications array deployed in Low Earth Orbit (LEO).
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Through vigorous standardization efforts, The Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) has laid the groundwork for satellite-based 5G connectivity using Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTNs). Leveraging satellites enables Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) to provide broadband coverage to those tough-to-reach areas, such as remote construction sites or crop fields for agriculture, as well as in underserved regions. As will be spelled out in this post, 5G from space can even help save lives by providing low-latency broadband to users in emergency scenarios when terrestrial networks are unavailable. To capitalize on this US$18 billion market opportunity that NTN mobile presents, everyone from smartphone manufacturers to Satellite Communication (SatCom) service providers, and from chipset vendors to network operators, have been busy integrating satellite communications into their 5G solutions and striking numerous partnerships to strengthen their offerings.