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Jonathan Newell talks to National Instruments about 5G developments and how these will affect a new technology boom in the IoT and V2x communications
t was a year ago since I last spoke to experts at National Instruments (NI) about developments in 5G technology and, as the company forecast at that time, a lot has changed in the intervening period. I spoke again to NI’s product marketing
manager, Sarah Yost, and the company’s director of RF and wireless test, Jason White, about what has happened and what the company is announcing in Barcelona at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2018.
STRUCTURED DEVELOPMENTS One of the most significant developments in 5G during the past 12 months was the 3GPP ratification of Part 1 of the “new radio” (5G) standard in December 2017. The significance of this is that it creates a set of specifications and therefore a structure within which companies develop and build their products. However, as Yost explained, this is only Part 1 and
there is still a long way to go before full implementation. “To meet the original KPIs that were laid out for 5G, the standard is being rolled out in two phases and the December release was Part 1 of the first phase,” she explains. Part 2 is expected to be released in June this year
and will complete the roll out of Phase 1 of the standard, which addresses data throughput, one of the three KPIs calling for a ten-fold increase in speed. The other KPIs address latency and connectivity
with ambitions to achieve latencies of less than 1ms and more than 1,000 times increase in users. This is Phase 2 and will cater for the expected explosion in new applications in transport and the Internet of Things (IoT).
RAPID DEVELOPMENT NI is expecting rapid development in applications for 5G during the next 12 months and MWC 2019 will be packed with innovation based on this enabling technology. Despite the fact that Phase 2 won’t be expected for another year beyond that, the shackles are off and the mechanism for testing and prototyping is in place. NI has already been working with Samsung in
early prototyping and device interoperability testing using the NI SDR (software defined radio), which models different types of devices rather than brands. For example, the SDR can emulate a handset or a device on the Industrial IoT and test it for
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