Parallel Wireless Webinar: 5G at #MWC19

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5G at #MWC19
Presented by: Zahid Ghadialy
Senior Director, Strategic Marketing
#PWTechTrain

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Presented by
Zahid Ghadialy, Senior Director, Strategic Marketing
Zahid is a technologist with a deep understanding of architecting world-
class mobile products and solutions. With over 20 years of experience in
telecom industry as an engineer, programmer, analyst, researcher,
architect, trainer, product manager and technical marketer, he has
witnessed the highs and lows of this industry. He is a skeptic and often
challenges conventional wisdom. He was a part of the team responsible
for the first 3G network rollout in Japan and Europe. Since then he has
worked extensively in mobile technologies like 3G, 4G and now 5G. He is
also widely recognized as an evangelist for new technologies, often
talking about them in various industry fora, conferences and blogs;
separating the hype from the real world applications & services.
Zahid’s blog link: https://blog.3g4g.co.uk/
Presenters

• 07 Mar 2019 – 5G 101 Part 1 (Zahid Ghadialy)
• 26 Mar 2019 – Parallel Wireless Unified 2G/3G/4G/5G Open vRAN (Babak
Jafarian & Zahid Ghadialy)
• 02 Apr 2019 – 5G 101 Part 2 (Zahid Ghadialy)
• 11 Apr 2019 – 5G at MWC 2019 (Zahid Ghadialy)
• 02 May 2019 – 5G NR Logical Architecture and its Functional Split Options
(Babak Jafarian)
• 16 May 2019 – 5G Orchestration and Network Management (Babak Jafarian)
• 30 May 2019 – Tackling Network Densification Challenges for 5G (Babak
Jafarian)
• More coming soon. Follow #PWTechTrain on Twitter & LinkedIn
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Parallel Wireless at Telecom Infra Project ‘OpenRAN 5G NR’ Group
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• Reimagining 2G: Future-Proof Your 2G Network
• Reimagining 3G: Profit From Your 3G Network
• Reimagining 4G: Improve Coverage for Your 4G Network
• 5G Demo: Software-Upgrade Your Network to 5G
• Vodafone & Telefonica Present Results of Open RAN RFI at TIP Summit 2018
Parallel Wireless 2G, 3G, 4G & 5G Demo Videos from MWC 2019

Topics
• In this webinar, we will look at:
⎯ MWC 2019 Metrics
⎯ 5G @ MWC 2019 Topics
• Wi-Fi Announcements
• Devices & Wearables
• M2M & IoT
• Drones
• Consumer & AI
• V2X
• Operator Announcements
• Open RAN
• Antennas
• Applications & Use Cases
• Industrial IoT (IIoT) and Private Networks
⎯ 5G Issues & Challenges
⎯ 6G
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• 109,000 (2K up from 2018) visitors from 198
countries and territories attended MWC19
Barcelona
• 2,400 Exhibitors over 120,000 square metres
(roughly equivalent to 16 football pitches)
• More than 55 percent of this year’s MWC
attendees held senior-level positions (same as
2018), including 7,900 CEOs (200 up from 2018)
• 3,640 international media and industry analysts
• https://www.mwcbarcelona.com/about/press-
release/gsma-wraps-up-hugely-successful-
mwc19-barcelona/
MWC 19 Organizer Metrics

Wi-Fi
Facebook Connectivity

• Cisco teams up with Samsung to make the promise of Wi-Fi 6 a reality
⎯ Validate that Wi-Fi 6 actually delivers faster connections, more capacity, and longer
battery life.
• Broadcom introduced Wi-Fi 6 chip for mass-market smartphones.
⎯ BCM43752: Dual-Band 802.11ax Wi-Fi/Bluetooth 5 Combo Chip
• Intel delivers world’s first 6 GHz Wi-Fi demo at MWC
⎯ Legacy 802.11 technologies wont be allowed to use 6GHz spectrum
802.11ax a.k.a. Wi-Fi 6 was hot news

• Express Wi-Fi is a division within Facebook Connectivity, a group of global internet connectivity initiatives by
Facebook. As one of several programs under the Facebook Connectivity umbrella, it partners with mobile
network operators and internet service providers to provide internet access via public Wi-Fi hotspots that are
"fast, affordable, and reliable" (as per Facebook). Facebook assists partners by providing a comprehensive Wi-Fi
platform that partners can leverage to better manage and grow their Wi-Fi offerings. – Wikipedia
• New Express Wi-Fi Partners:
⎯ Operators: CellC in South Africa, Vodafone in Ghana, and Globe in the Philippines
⎯ Technology Partners: Nokia, Aruba, and Edgecore Networks will join Arista, Cambium
Networks, and Ruckus Networks as part of the Express Wi-Fi Technology Partner program
to build hardware and software that powers Express Wi-Fi.
⎯ Cambium Networks, an existing Express Wi-Fi Technology Partner, is integrating
Facebook’s self-organizing mesh access (SOMA) technology into their line of Wi-Fi
products, enabling more operators to easily deploy Wi-Fi networks at scale.
• SOMA is a self-organizing, self-healing mesh Wi-Fi technology that allows for greater self-configuration,
reliability, and performance and reduces the need for operators to spend time manually configuring
their networks.
Facebook’s Express Wi-Fi momentum with partners

Devices & Wearables
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• 4.6in screen on the outside
• 7.3in screen on the inside. Special material
inside does not form crease
• Opens out like a book for watching videos,
browsing the web or multitasking with three
apps on the go simultaneously.
• As Galaxy Fold opens and closes, apps
automatically show up on other screen
where you leave off.
• Available end of April in 4G & 5G version.
• Price $1,980.
• More details on website.
• Samsung released a video of their Galaxy
Fold test Robot here.
Samsung Galaxy Fold

Huawei Mate X Foldable 5G Phone
Source: Ben Wood
Tweet 1, Tweet 2
• Fold-outward design vs Samsung’s Fold-in –
spent 3 years perfecting the hinge
• Unfolded: 8 inches, Folded: 6.6 inches for front
panel, 6.38 inches for back panel
• Leica camera - 40 MP (Wide Angle Lens) + 16
MP (Ultra Wide Angle Lens) + 8 MP
(Telephoto)
• Fingerprint sensor built into its power button
• 8GB of RAM and 512GB of storage
• Large battery and a new 55W version of the
firms SuperCharge technology that can reach
85% from zero in 30 minutes.
• Price $2,600
Official website

• Dual-screen smartphone
• Experience multi-player games with rich,
ultra-realistic graphics and near-
instantaneous response for human-like reflex
now on mobile.
• 5-camera phone, three rear cameras and two
on the front, capture truly original selfies,
pictures, and videos that are rich in detail.
• 6.4-inch QHD+ OLED FullVision Display with
19.5:9 aspect ratio
• Default 128GB storage and 6GB RAM.
• Price $1,047 + Second Display $193
Official website
LG V50 ThinQ 5G
Source: Marc Allera

• 6.39 inches, 100.2 cm2 (~85.0%
screen-to-body ratio)
• 12MP AI dual camera. For selfies,
24MP + 2MP dual camera setup.
• Special "highly-advanced" hybrid
cooling system to reduce the heat
generated passively
• Price €599($670) – Available May
Official website
Xiaomi Mi MIX 3 5G
Source: Neil Shah

• Phablet with hotspot, media
streamer and smart speakers
• Dual charging capability – charge
lasts all day
• Connects up to 20 devices
• 5-inch screen, a lock button,
microSD card slot, 802.11ad wi-fi,
ports for both ethernet and USB-C,
and even a full build of Android 9
Pie.
• Will be released with Sprint first,
price unavailable
Official website
HTC 5G Hub
Pic source Ben Wood & Gizmodo
Read more at Gizmodo

Sony 5G mmWave Smartphone Prototype
From Anritsu Booth

Most Powerful 5G modem: Huawei Balong vs Qualcomm Snapdragon
Source: GSM Arena
Huawei comparing Balong vs Snapdragon
Picture Source: Anshel Sag
Note that Snapdragon X55 supports 4G LTE as well as “legacy”
technologies like 3G and 2G. Both the GSM and CDMA versions
are supported, so EDGE, EV-DO, etc. are all covered by this single
modem.

Microsoft HoloLens 2 AR Headset
Pic source:
• Ben Wood
• Industry week
Video: On stage live
demo from #MWC19
Interesting video clips
from Evan Kirstel on
Twitter on HoloLens:
• Anatomy of human
body
• MWC 19 Mashable
Clip
• CNN Business clip

Huawei released 5G CPE Pro – 5G Backhaul, Wi-Fi 6 Access Output
5G CPE router for Smart Home which drives Wi-Fi 6 with 5G backhaul. Also include Huawei's HiLink smart
home platform for controlling third party smart home devices – Source: Neil Shah

Nokia FastMile 5G Gateway – CPE for FWA
Suri unveils FastMile 5G Gateway, self-contained residential device using 4G/5G to
bring internet into home's Wi-Fi net - #MWC19 #NokiaIAR (holding unit on stage,
adds @nokia brings "innovation with beauty") - Ken Rehbehn

M2M & IoT

• Quectel 5G 2.6GHz End-to-end Products
• Quectel 5G modules RG500Q and
RM500Q featuring Snapdragon X55
modem were unveiled as one of the
world's first 5G modules
• Quectel's 5G modules RG500Q/RG510Q
and RM500Q/RM510Q are designed for
enterprise and mobile broadband
applications such as fixed wireless access,
mobile hotspot devices, and public safety
and surveillance applications.
• Official PR
• Official Tweet
Quectel 2.6GHz X55 based 5G IoT modules

• 5G ready, supports 3GPP Release 14 and
15 and LTE UE categories M1/NB1/NB2.
• In a single chip, Monarch 2 integrates
baseband, RF, RAM, MCU, and power
management.
• Supports all power classes +23/20/14
dBm, allowing deployments by all
operators around the world with efficient
network capacity and data plans.
• Dedicated MCU is able to scale from
ultra-low power to high-performance
mode to best fit customer applications.
• Embedded secure element (SE) offers the
highest, government-grade security level
possible, EAL5+, for powerful iUICC
capability.
• Official Sequans MWC19 website.
Sequans Monarch 2: Most Advanced LTE for IoT Chip Platform
RCR Wireless Interview with CEO Georges Karam

• Lots of demos on Orange stand:
⎯ Indoor smart tracking
⎯ Live Booster, the turnkey and all-in-one
solution for connecting your objects
⎯ Live Tracker, next generation tag, more
reliable than Bluetooth tags, that will
use the cellular networks dedicated to
the Internet of Things.
⎯ Orange Energie: Solution for off-grid
electrification embraces green
innovation with solar energy for
populations living in areas with no
access or restricted access to electricity.
Orange IoT Zone

Drones

Ooredoo’s 5G Aerial Taxi
Official Press Release
Official Video
Check 3G4G Blog post on Drones
from #MWC19

Turkcell’s 5G connected Dronecell
Turkcell Official Dronecell Website
3G4G Small Cell Blog on Turkcell’s domestic drone

From LMT’s official website on Mobile Network-Enabled UTM Platform:
• It is believed that the most safe and successful real-time
communication can be done through the mobile network, particularly
in the 5G network, that's specifically created for UAV-to-UAV (U2U)
and UAV-to-Infrastructure (U2I) communication.
• It follows that mobile operators can play a major role in the
development of UTM platforms. LMT is currently working together
with the public and private sector to lay the foundations for such an
ecosystem.
• Some of the planned functionality of the platform includes:
⎯ safe LLA (low level altitude) communication network for UAS
⎯ population density information
⎯ UAS tracking
⎯ a detect and avoid system
⎯ real-time communication throughout all the flight (BVLOS)
• Our unique ability to apply our network coverage and all of its benefits
(notably, licensed spectrum, secure communication, national wide
network coverage, etc.), leads to unparalleled safety and usability.
LMT, Latvia’s Mobile Network-Enabled UTM Platform
More info about LMT at Operator Watch Blog

From Samsung PR:
• A Drone carrying a very low latency, high-
quality video system is piloted from the
Orange booth at the Fira de Barcelona.
• The drone, which is located outdoors at
an Orange datacenter, carries a 5G router
(CPE) that is used to transfer commands
to the drone and transmit a high-quality
video feed with low latency.
• At the Orange booth, the pilot can be
seen controlling the drone by using a 5G
tablet.
• Aeromedia, a leading drone operator,
collaborated in this demo.
Samsung Electronics, Cisco and Orange Remotely Piloted 5G Drone

• Huawei calls SkySite as a drone
with integrated 5G base station
• Designed for emergency coverage
after a site failure due to technical
issues or natural disasters like
earthquakes or floods.
• The drone weighs just 7 kgs.
• Tethering is used for providing
power as well as fiber for
communication between the
CU/DU on the ground as the '5G
Book' RRU on the drone.
Huawei SkySite: Drone with 5G base station & '5G Book' RRU
More detail on 3G4G Small Cells Blog

Consumer & AI

ZTE Drumming & Piano Playing Robots
Video from Twitter
ZTE Tweet on Low latency control
of Robot over 5G

• Demonstrating low-latency by
phone based motion capture.
Robots duplicating the motion
• Official Tweet
• Unofficial Tweet
MediaTek AI Robots: Real-time Human Pose Tracking

Official Press Release:
• two ground-breaking technologies: intelligent
robot joints - Smart Compliant Actuators (SCAs),
and a cloud brain – Human Augmented Robotic
Intelligence with Extreme Reality (HARIX)
• The advantage of a "cloud robot" like XR-1 is that,
by placing its AI brain in the cloud, it can utilize
powerful AI engines, collective learning
capabilities, and scalability, to achieve a high level
of intelligence while still providing low cost and
low battery consumption for the robot body.
• Not sure what 5G was doing
• Cathy in action: Video by Scott Stonham
XR1 a.k.a. 'Cathy' the CloudMinds Technology Inc Robot barista
Picture Source: Godfrey Mutabazi

• 5G offers new possibilities in terms of
wireless connection of AGV with very high
data rates (for video uploads for
example), low latency (for a very good
responsiveness and manageability) and
especially a sanctuarization of the quality
of service for these critical flows
guarantee that they are established and
maintained end-to-end even when there
is a load on the network.
• The model used is a real industrial robot,
capable of towing a load of 150 kg for 8
hours, used in supply chain production of
a large aeronautical industry.
• Official website (in French)
Orange 5G for Industrial Robots: Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV)

Aura : Telefonica’s AI digital assistant
Aura will be available Google Smart speaker in 2019 and in many new countries. Today Aura is available in 6
countries, in 2019 it will be available in 9 countries. – Source Maria Rua Aguete
More about Aura on Operator Watch Blog

V2X

5G Automotive Association (5GAA) Grows to 110 Members
Official 5GAA PR – presentations at bottom of this page Pictures Source: Oliver Goldich

Qualcomm announced 5G dual SIM & 4G LTE with integrated C-V2X and WiFi6
Source Tweet: Patrick Moorhead
Qualcomm PR: Qualcomm
Announces Wi-Fi 6 For
Automotive, Bringing Greater
Capacity for Premium In-Vehicle
Experiences
Qualcomm PR: Automotive
Industry’s First 5G Dual SIM Dual
Active and Latest 4G LTE-
Advanced Pro-Tiered Platform
Portfolio With Integrated C-V2X
and Precise Positioning Support
For Next Generation Vehicles
(New Platforms for Connected
Vehicles Anticipated to be
Available in 2021)

• BMW Group and Daimler AG invest
more than €1 billion in joint mobility
services provider
⎯ Mercedes-Benz is a division of Daimler
• The cooperation comprises five joint
ventures:
⎯ REACH NOW for multimodal services,
⎯ CHARGE NOW for charging
⎯ FREE NOW for taxi ride-hailing
⎯ PARK NOW for parking
⎯ SHARE NOW for car-sharing.
BMW & Daimler invest €1 billion in joint mobility services provider
Read more at: AutoMobilSport
Official PR: Daimler at MWC 2019

Official website
• Three assisted driving use cases
⎯ Detection of a pedestrian at a zebra crossing
⎯ Detection of cyclists when turning right
⎯ Detection of a non-moving car on the road
with low visibility
• In addition, implementing Ficosa's C-V2X
technology in cars provides the driver with
a "sixth sense"
• World’s first use case of 5G in-car
entertainment including the download of
4K contents through 5G. In this case, the
car is equipped with the new Qualcomm
5G chipset, which, together with the video
storage at the Edge, allows the streaming
of 4K contents.
Teleefonica and Seat 5G Assisted Driving
Picture Source: Lise Fuhr

• AT&T and Vodafone Business are
working together to accelerate
Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity
and innovation in the automotive
industry.
• The companies will prioritize projects
to enhance safety, security and
entertainment capabilities. Key areas
of focus will be:
⎯ 5G and autonomous vehicle technology
⎯ V2X capabilities (vehicle-to-everything)
⎯ In-vehicle entertainment
⎯ Connected car applications and services
⎯ Global service quality models
⎯ Connected car/ smart cities intersection
AT&T and Vodafone Business partner to Drive IoT Connectivity
Picture Source: Fierce Wireless
Official Press Release from AT&T Website

Operator
Announcements

Telefónica Open Access and Edge Computing
Picture source: Ian Fogg Patrick Lopez – Edge vs Cloud
• Official Telefonica PR: Telefónica presents the first prototype of an open and convergent access network that
integrates fixed and mobile, and enables Edge Computing
• Telefónica whitepaper: Telefónica Open Access and Edge Computing

Telefónica Open Access and Edge Computing
Picture Source: Pablo Armagni

Official Website:
• TIP launches open RAN 5G NR project
group, led by Sprint, Vodafone
• Set to launch mobile 5G in May in Chicago,
Atlanta, Dallas and Kansas City.
• Sprint 5G will cover more than 1,000 square
miles across those nine markets.
• Sprint will launch the LG V50 ThinQ 5G this
spring as its first 5G device.
• Sprint is the exclusive U.S. carrier of HTC 5G
Hub, launching this spring – bringing
smooth video streaming, lower-latency,
virtually buffer-free gaming and 5G mobile
hotspot connectivity for up to 20 users.
Sprint at MWC Barcelona 2019

• Data-Only Operator Rain Launched
Africa's First 5G Network (Forbes)
⎯ But they announced a launch at
AfricaCom 2018 as well
• Rain offers data-only SIM cards and
has become a disruptive force in
South Africa which suffers from
very high mobile data costs.
• The 5G network will be provided by
Huawei
• Nokia announced partnership with
Rain as well (see PR)
Rain, South Africa launches Africa’s first 5G

Open RAN

Rakuten: Open, Virtualized & Disaggregated RAN
More details on Operator Watch Blog

Rakuten Vision of Fully Virtualized Cloud-Native Mobile Network

Rakuten’s 6 Steps to a Zero Trust, Zero Touch Network
Picture Source: Susan Welsh de
Grimaldo
DC – Data Centre
GC – Pre-aggregation site
CDC – Centralized Data Centers
DC(GC) – The virtualized
Distributed Unit (vDU) processing
lower layers of the radio stack and
virtualized Central Unit (vCU)
processing upper layers of the
radio stack, reside here.
See Cisco blog for more details.

“One aspect perhaps of note is that although Rakuten has mentioned an Open
vRAN in passing, it is not adopting any formal specs from the likes of O-RAN
Alliance or TIP. Open refers to the open API nature of the RAN platforms, allowing
for multi vendor RRH to vRAN connections, as well as back to orchestration and
automation platforms.”
Source: TMN Magazine
Is Rakuten Network Open RAN?

NEC 5G Open RAN enabled Radio Unit (RU)

Official Blog post from TIP:
• Vodafone and Telefonica now are initiating
OpenRAN field trials, having used the RFI to
identify Altiostar, Mavenir and Parallel Wireless as
collaborators.
• Vodafone has 25 planned trial sites in Turkey
carrying commercial traffic over a Parallel Wireless
2G+4G Macro Site in the 900Mhz band
• Next wave of OpenRAN trial deployments in
Africa, with the Vodacom Group, Mavenir, and
Parallel Wireless.
• Vodafone UK brings Mavenir’s small base stations
indoors
• Telefonica is deploying sites in Peru, Colombia,
and Argentina for their pilot OpenRAN trials,
which include RFI winners Parallel Wireless and
Altiostar.
Telecom Infra Project (TIP) Turns Three, moves into production phase
Source Picture: Light Reading

Official Website
• The OpenRAN 5G NR Project Group
will collaborate via TIP to define a
whitebox platform for a 5G NR
access point that is easy to
configure and deploy.
⎯ New TIP project group for
disaggregated 5G NR small cell/base
station with global operators along
with a set of lead OEMs and SoC
partners to develop a white-box 5G
NR solution, to include a 5G NR
compatible baseband unit; antenna
and RF; and provisioning layer.
Telecom Infra Project (TIP) sets up ‘OpenRAN 5G NR’ Group
Parallel Wireless is part of the OpenRAN 5G NR group

• The 3G4G Blog: A quick tutorial on Open RAN, vRAN & White Box RAN
• TMN Magazine: Taking the Open RAN commercial - Part I: O-RAN Alliance
• TMN Magazine: Rakuten makes a real racket about its virtual network at MWC -
Open RAN Part II: Ra Ra Rakuten
• TMN Magazine: Open RAN at the TIP-ping point - Open RAN: Part III.
• Case Study: Parallel Wireless Open RAN Helps Vodafone to Modernize Legacy
Networks (in this webinar attachments)
Open RAN Tutorial & Related Articles

Antennas
And Massive MIMO

This was a very big announcement at MWC 2019. Read official announcement
here
• Ericsson increases investments in 5G antenna technology
• Intends to acquire Kathrein’s antenna and filters division with around 4,000
skilled professionals to complement Ericsson’s in-house capabilities and
competences
• The transaction is expected to close in third quarter 2019
• Preliminary and unaudited revenues from the acquired part of Kathrein were
approximately EUR 270 million in 2018, excluding sales to Ericsson
Ericsson to acquire Kathrein’s antenna and filters business

SK Telecom 5G Access Solution

ZTE sub-6GHz RRU’s

Comba AAU and CPE

Ericsson Radio Stripe
Read more at The 3G4G Blog
Picture Source: Keith Dyer

Challenges of 5G deployment,
according to Zhengmao Li, EVP
China Mobile (biggest operator on
the world).
• 5G needs 3 X base stations for
same coverage as LTE due to
higher frequencies
• Power consumption of a 5G base
station is 3 times that of LTE
• 5G base station costs 4 times
price of LTE
Challenges of 5G deployment, according to China Mobile
Source Tweet

Power Consumption: 5G
Basestations Are Hungry, Hungry
Hippos (Article link)
• 10 kilowatts of power for 64T64R
5G sites
• 4G cellsites use around 6 kilowatts
for power, assuming a three-sector,
12 radio set-up.
• This might cause some carriers to
downgrade their MIMO
requirements. South Korean
operators are using 32T32R arrays.
5G Basestations Are Hungry, Hungry Hippos
Source Tweet

Liquid-cooled Massive MIMO base station
Source Tweet
Nokia's liquid-cooled Massive MIMO base station takes a third of the weight and half the thickness out of the previous version of
a similar panel, letting it blend in with walls and buildings better. In this case, Nokia can't reduce the area of the panel, which has
a lot of small antennas. But it got rid of the cooling fins, which take up a lot of space. At one apartment building in Helsinki,
they're even driving the waste heat down into the building to heat up the common areas; between lower power requirements
and heat reuse, that's an 80 percent reduction in carbon usage for the base station site – Source PC Mag

Applications & Use
Cases

• A team of doctors at Hospital Clinic
Barcelona began removing a cancerous
tumor from a patient's colon on
Wednesday, the surgeon overseeing the
procedure was over three miles away.
• Dr Antonio de Lacy, a gastrointestinal
surgeon, used a 5G connection to remotely
supervise an actual operation at the
Hospital Clinic de Barcelona. His drawings
of recommended incision points appeared
on a display in the surgery room to guide
the medics performing the operation.
• 5G connection was used for high quality
image and fast response time.
• Good video by CNN here.
• Video of the keynote by Scott Stonham.
Live demo of a tele-mentored surgery using Vodafone’s 5G connection

• Niantic is the company behind
Pokémon Go
• Deutsche Telekom, Niantic Inc.,
MobiledgeX and Samsung Showcase
World’s First Mobile Edge Mixed
Reality Multi-Gamer Experience
• Niantic’s “Codename: Neon” is
possible due to 5G ultra-low latency,
Deutsche Telekom edge-enabled
network, and Samsung Galaxy S10+
with edge computing enablement.
• More details on 3G4G Blog.
World’s first edge-enhanced Mixed Reality Multiplayer Game

5G Use Cases by NTT Docomo
NTT Docomo MWC 2019 Page

SK Telecom 5G Use Cases
SK Telecom Press Release

Telefonica’s 5G TV Production
Telefonica press release

KT: VR Games, Connected Factory, Robots
Read more at Fierce Wireless, e4ds

Industrial IoT and
Private Networks

• A campus network is a mobile network for a defined area
and for specific applications.
• Campus solutions are tailored to the needs of business
customers and their specific use cases. They meet the
requirements of Industry 4.0.
• Telekom and OSRAM are testing a so-called "dual-slice"
campus network in the joint project.
⎯ This combines a public and a private LTE network on one common
infrastructure.
⎯ This guarantees an optimal indoor and outdoor coverage.
⎯ OSRAM uses the private LTE network exclusively.
• In addition, Telekom is building a so-called local edge
cloud. This shifts complex computing processes from the
remote data center to a computer on the shop floor.
Data processing is thus faster.
• Artificial Intelligence" complements the campus network
as part of the autonomous transport solution.
Deutsche Telekom and OSRAM launch Campus Network
Official Deutsche Telekom Website

• Ruckus CBRS LTE portfolio
enables enterprises to deploy
private LTE networks to ensure a
high quality-of-service for
business-critical applications and
use cases.
• While CBRS is specific to the US
only, its based on 3.5GHz
frequency, most commonly used
5G Capacity Layer frequency.
• Official website.
Ruckus CBRS Based Private Networks

• Nokia’s vision of Industry 4.0 is a
hyperconnected, smarter, more
sustainable future for all of us in the
working world. As this vision becomes
reality, industrial networks will be able to:
⎯ Reach everywhere
⎯ See into the future
⎯ Be smarter and faster
⎯ Turn cities into platforms of sustainable
living
⎯ Make work and life safer and better for all
• Video of the Screwdriver in action.
• Official Nokia Connected Industries
Website
Nokia Connected Industries and Screw Driver
Picture Source: Daryl Schoolar

5G Issues & Challenges

• High CAPEX and OPEX for new infrastructure.
• Compelling use cases are still missing.
• While there are talks of many new business models, most of them will take a
few years to become a reality.
• How to convince end-users to buy new devices and services.
• Slow in answering user concerns about 5G safety and health issues.
• Private networks slow to take off the ground.
• Open RAN has great vision, operators are slowly coming round to it.
Industry challenges

6G

• Mehdi Bennis from University of
Oulu, Finland was talking about
their 6G Flagship program
• Interdigtial was also talking
about their Beyond-5G research
• A post with videos is available on
The 3G4G Blog here.
Beyond-5G & 6G Research

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