Learning 5G

2G

Second generation of mobile telephony systems. It uses digital transmission to deliver voice, text services and very low-speed data services.

3G

Third generation of mobile systems. It can be used to deliver voice, text and lower-speed data services. It supports multimedia applications such as video, audio and internet access, alongside conventional voice services.

4G

Fourth generation of mobile systems. It can provide download speeds of over 10 Mbit/s, and is used to deliver voice, text and higher-speed data services.

5G

Fifth generation of mobile technology. It can deliver faster, lower latency mobile broadband, and enable more revolutionary uses in sectors such as manufacturing, transport and healthcare.

5G NR (New Radio)

The 3GPP’s fifth-generation radio standard that leverages millimetre waves, enhanced small cells, Massive-input Massive-output (MIMO), beamforming, licensed / unlicensed spectrum, and full duplex wireless technologies.

3GPP

A group of seven telecommunications standard development organisations (ARIB, ATIS, CCSA, ETSI, TSDSI, TTA, TTC) known as the ‘organisational partners’. It provides its members with a stable environment to produce the reports and specifications that define cellular telecommunications network technologies, including radio access, the core transport network and service capabilities.

Mobile Network

How does your smartphone work on 5G vs 4G?

The true smartness behind smartphones is the mobile network that keeps you connected even if you travel at high speeds. All mobile networks, regardless of technology generation, are using the same basic principles for how they work.

Mobile networks consist of three parts. First, we have the Radio Access Network, which is what your phone connects to. Its antennas can often be seen on city rooftops or on masts and towers in the countryside.

Then we have the Core Network – the central part of the mobile network – that for example connects your call to the right person or connects you to the internet service you want to use. Finally, we have the Transport Network that connects the Radio Access Network and the Core.

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Connected Devices

How many devices can 5G vs 4G connect?

Previous mobile network generations, like 4G, can sometimes have difficulty handling many devices in the same location. Some of us have experienced this when trying to use our phones during crowded sports events or concerts. 5G solves this issue by intelligently transmitting to each device, with high precision – which enables it to handle as much as 1 million devices per square kilometer.

This precision reduces the noise in 5G, so that it is easier to connect many devices. The ability to connect more devices is very important since the number of devices that connect to the network increases every year.

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Type of Devices

What kind of devices can 5G vs 4G connect to?

4G was a great leap forward, allowing people to stream music and video on the go. 5G is designed to connect many more types of devices than smartphones – anything really. While 4G provided a one-size-fits-all kind of connectivity, where every device got the same service, 5G is different.

For a smart watch that runs on a small battery, 5G can provide a connection that consumes very little energy. For an industrial robot, 5G can provide an extremely stable and fast connection . This is valuable because, in the future we will see more and more new types of connected devices, each requiring connections with different levels of performance and characteristics.

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5G Network

Will 5G vs 4G make any difference for computing and cloud services?

While 4G made cloud services useable on mobile phones, 5G technology takes this to a new level. A 5G network has so much processing power built in, that it becomes more than a network. It can act as a distributed data center that performs processing tasks, either using the full power of centralized resources or the responsiveness of edge computing done close to the user.

Processing intense tasks, like AR-filters or games, could be handled by the network instead of your phone, improving both performance and saving battery. This makes new types of battery-powered devices, like light-weight AR-glasses, possible and enables things like coordinated fleets of connected delivery drones.

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