5G technology will support the Internet of Things. The number of connected terminals will be multiplied by 150 and will exceed one million million.
This is a completely new communications system, with a design radically different from the current one. 5G is the new generation of ultra-fast wireless networks that will drive the technology of the future and impact our daily lives. While it is true that its commercial launch is planned for 2020, some selective deployments will be carried out during the next year.
6.5 billion people will use mobile networks to communicate and about 100 billion objects will be connected in less than three years. In terms of capacity, "5G will represent an increase per thousand compared to previous generations, enabling mobile broadband everywhere, a decrease in latency to minimum levels and an increase in maximum reliability levels for critical communications '. In addition, Huawei sources say that the 5G will reach a top speed of 10 Gbps, which will allow, for example, that a film in HD quality of 8 Gb can be downloaded in just seven seconds, When it required more than an hour using 3G or seven minutes with 4G. "This technology is not a simple upgrade. 5G will be a powerful platform that will enable new applications, business models and even new industries.
These networks will not only facilitate the transport of information but will integrate the capacity to virtualize, which will allow personalized services to corporate clients.
Likewise, Arturo Azcorra, director of IMDEA Networks, explains that 5G will multiply by 100 the maximum amount of information available for each terminal, reaching 10 Gigabits / second. He says he will also multiply the aggregate capacity of the current networks by 1,000, to a density of 10 Terabits / second per square kilometer. That is, it will greatly increase the number of users that can be connected. Azcorra predicts that the number of connected terminals will multiply by 150, exceeding one million million.
At the same time, it argues that 5G technology will not come to solve an objective problem, but to enable new and diverse ways in which people, industries and public administrations perform their tasks and relate to each other. «5G is a new way of understanding reality and interacting with it, both at the level of individuals and companies and corporations. This technology brings us closer to the ideal of making time and distance irrelevant, "he added.
Azcorra adds that it will be possible to monitor in real time the necessary medical constants for the total population; It will be possible to prevent traffic accidents and reduce the consequences of accidents. From the macroeconomic point of view, they will "multiply the productivity of workers". Each person will have the information they need, allowing them to make decisions faster and with a better basis, and execute them in real time. "The potential of the socio-economic impact is simply infinite," he points out.
As in the telephone service a flat rate is offered to talk unlimitedly and the user is not able to reach the point of saturation, since it has a limit to their own need to talk on the phone, 5G networks will have the same Effect with the data, since they will be prepared to transport all the information that the private users are willing to travel through the network.
From Huawei, which will invest in this technology 600 million dollars until 2018, emphasize that the 5G will be especially useful in M2M processes (machine-to-machine), crucial in the massive traffic of data between equipment and in the efficient use of Spectrum above and below 6GHz. "The arrival of 5G will enable advances in service applications, infrastructures, consumer electronics, software systems and security. In addition, it will be the technology in charge of taking the mobile internet to another level and will support the Internet of Things, making possible a better connected world ».
Azcorra, on the other hand, reveals that 5G incorporates technologies specifically designed for the interconnection of objects and that will allow connections of very low energy consumption to be able to connect devices "IoT" totally autonomous. In this way, apart from all human beings, around one million million objects will be permanently connected to the 5G network and will establish dialogues to develop their collective function in an optimal way.
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