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6G: Vast and mysterious promises
6G wireless may be a decade away, but it’s already expected to support terabit speeds, power mobile devices, and enable mobile holograms.
5G: Time to get real about what it will be used for
Hype around 5G suggests it will prompt revolutionary changes in what wireless is used for, but it’s success will be providing better answers to existing problems.
5G services: Another FCC auction to jumpstart carrier deployments
The FCC is auctioning off 100MHz more of mid-range radio-frequency licenses suitable for 5G services and to trying to make it easier for the winners to put them to use quickly.
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Next-gen wireless options: Wi-Fi 6, 5G or private 5G?
As Wi-Fi and 5G technology improve to support higher bandwidth and more users per access point, enterprises need to look deeper to decide which best meets their needs.
Aruba chief: Enterprises must adjust to new normal of remote working
Keerti Melkote, president and founder of Aruba, talks future networks, edge computing and 5G.
John Deere invests $500k in private 5G licenses to support flexible factory networks
With FCC licenses it bought at auction, John Deere can move ahead with 5G now rather than wait 5-7 years for carriers to get around to providing it in rural areas.
Network slicing: Wireless virtualization to build 5G services and conserve spectrum
What is network slicing and how can it make efficient use of carriers’ wireless capacity to enable virtual networks that exactly fit customer needs?
Dell partners to provide 5G networking, edge solution
Dell, VMware and SK Telecom team up to offer OneBox MEC, a single device that integrates private 5G and edge-computing.
Will carriers use 5G to provide edge services?
5G wireless can be used as dumb-pipe transport for data, but providers could build new services such as edge computing on top of it and sell them to enterprises.
Deloitte: 5G to drive edge, Open RAN to the forefront in 2021
5G cellular wireless, edge computing technology face a year of growth
FCC's 5G-frequency auction prompts $2 billion in bids on the first day
A broad chunk of wireless spectrum that the Federal Communications Commission has put up for grabs to the highest bidder will enable the most advanced 5G services.
Startup EdgeQ offers 5G and AI for the edge
Led by former Qualcomm and Intel executives, EdgeQ is developing a converged 5G and AI silicon platform for edge computing networks.
Giant space antenna designed to beam 5G to Earth
A stratospheric Internet service is one step closer to launching, according to its developers.
Talk of a national 5G network leaves a lot of questions unanswered
A rumored Trump administration proposal for a national 5G network has drawn a Congressional inquiry about what could be a sea change in spectrum-allocation policy.
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IBM, Red Hat, and AT&T team up for private edge deployments
An alliance of IBM and AT&T brings together 5G, Kubernetes and cloud management in an effort to simplify enterprise edge-computing deployments.
Verizon deals with Microsoft, Nokia aim at making private 5G easier
At this stage of 5G availability, offerings that blend fast cellular service with compatible software and hardware may attract early adopters.
What 5G promises for IoT
Right away 5G looks promising for high-density IoT deployments, but future releases of the cellular technology have even greater potential.
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