Why the Excitment about the coming of 5G network is Justifiable

5G evolution

Internet of Things, Driverless cars, smart cities, remote surgeries, and most of the high tech innovations on the pipeline, are all very tied to this next big technological hit. For IoT and all the Billions of devices that will be interconnected in a few years from now, an exceeding high speed internet connection will be non negotiable if it's to be a success. 

The same goes for driverless cars that are speedily being worked on, it will also require high streams of data, fast, reliable and ruthlessly efficient wireless connection. Smart cities, remote surgeries are not left out in this as each one of them crucially need extremely fast and very low latent connection. 

In come the 'boss', with all due respect to the current generations of wireless connections, non of them is even remotely close to being capable of what this new generation of wireless connection will do. So looking at the expected features of this next generation wireless connection, you will be astonished as to the projected and expected features. 

It is expected as said by a professor at the university of Surrey, "that the 5G will be a dramatic overhaul and harmonization of the radio spectrum". Now from the words of prof, harmonization of the radio spectrum is very important in what this super fast and all-encompassing 5G network brings. 

But currently there is some sort of bottlenecks to achieving this harmonization in the industry which ITU (International Telecommunication Union) is comprehensively restructuring the parts of the radio network used to transmit data, while allowing pre-existing communications, including 4G and 3G, to continue functioning, this will lead to smooth and efficient running of 5G.

According to Prof.Tafazolli of the university of Surrey, it is possible to run a wireless data connection at an unbelievable 800Gbps - that's 100 times faster than current 5G testing. A speed of 800Gbps is an insane speed in the data world, put simply that a speed of 800Gbps would be equivalent to downloading 33 HD films - in a single second, that's some breathtaking speed and a whole lot faster than what 4G is capable of providing.

Another great thing about this next generation wireless connection according to Sara Mazur (head of Ericsson Research) is "that the network will need to cope with a vast increase in demand for communication". 

What this means is that 5G will be able to cater for the astronomical increase in the number of interconnected devices (IoT), that have been projected to increase to several billion devices by the year 2020 and beyound. 

So 5G is the technology that will have the capacity to handle this number of devices connected and running efficiently with very minimal latency and disruptions. 

Raising the capacity of this next generation network is like widening a road tunnel, which if you add more lanes more cars can go through (more data). And ordering makes it more efficient.
One other feature of this 5G that will put the other generations in the shade is about it's reliability. 

"It will have the reliability that you currently get over fibre connections," says Sara Mazur of Ericsson. So in effect, this will lead to an end to sudden data connection drops-outs, which will be very crucial in a highly connected world, where even the slightest of drops in situations like using Robots remotely to operate and conduct advanced processes could be fatal. 

This next generation wireless connection promises to be something very special in our ever changing world of high speed internet connection, with several other features like bi-directional bandwidth, its policies to avoid error and many others.