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Overview Art Of The Possible 5G Capabilities The Wireless Industry’s Commitment

HOW 5G HELPS

5G Capabilities

5G, the next generation of wireless, will be 100 times faster than 4G networks, connect 100 times as many devices and be five times more responsive.

5G delivers three key characteristics that offset the growth in network traffic, helping 5G be the greenest generation of wireless to date. Widespread 5G adoption will embed these capabilities in every industry, transforming the way we live and work. This will enable transformative new use cases, industry-by-industry.
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Superfast
Connectivity
5G delivers speeds that match the experience of using a wired connection. These advancements are important because they allow the network to run more demanding industrial and business applications such as live video monitoring, augmented reality (AR), and virtual reality (VR).
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Support for Critical
Services
5G provides more reliable, more secure, near instant response times - fast enough to support crucial safety and quality specifications for many use cases, such as car-to-car communications for autonomous vehicles. And 5G networks support critical traffic, such as machine-to-machine (M2M) communications for health care services, enabling innovative applications across industries.
Massive Connected
Device Support
Since 5G can support more connections, it will better enable the Internet of Things. In 2021, there were an estimated 185 million M2M connections in the U.S., and this number is expected to grow up to 279 million by 2025. 5G networks will support a diverse variety of IoT connections by providing the necessary bandwidth and latency, enabling the use of IoT in different settings.
5G Network Design

5G also reduces carbon emissions through a more efficient use of energy per bit of data transmitted. Here are some of the characteristics of 5G that make that possible.

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Beamforming allows antennas to focus the wireless signal to where devices are located, reducing energy spent on broadcasting a signal in locations where no devices are currently in use.

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Massive Multiple-Input, Multiple-Output (mMIMO) reliably increases the quality, throughput, and capacity of the radio link to use the same amount of energy to transmit more data.

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Millimeter Wave Spectrum (mmWave) helps increase the amount of data that can be transmitted within a given signal, decreasing energy consumed per bit of data transmitted.

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Smart-Sleep Mode Technology enables radio infrastructure to “sleep” when there is no traffic, thereby reducing energy consumption without sacrificing performance or reliability.

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Virtualized Radio Access Networks (vRAN) will dynamically program and centralize computing resources such as operating and cooling servers, allowing greater economies of scale and reducing per-bit energy use.

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The Wireless
Industry’s Commitment