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Heterogenous Networks (HetNet) and their Role in 5G

5G IoT Wireless Infrastructure 

Editorial Team

Rohde & Schwarz

When a new generation of cellular technology is launched, services associated with such technology may initially be offered in limited geographic areas and then expanded gradually over a multi-year pe...read more

Understanding Equalization When Compensating for High-frequency Roll-off in Your 5G Designs

5G Active Components Amplifiers Millimeter Waves 

Arwyn Roberts, RF Product Manager

CML Microcircuits

5G is widely expected to transform how we live our daily lives, with many analysts now predicting that it will be a driver of the next wave of economic growth. The roll-out of this transformational ne...read more

What is V2N?

5G Automotive 

Editorial Team

Dec 13, 2022
V2N (Vehicle-to-Network) is a form of C-V2X (cellular vehicle to everything) connectivity that enables vehicles to communicate with the internet using cellular networks. Using V2N vehicles would be ab...read more

What are Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces?

5G 6G RF Basics 

Editorial Team

Dec 13, 2022
A Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) is a programmable surface structure that can be used to control the reflection of electromagnetic (EM) waves by changing the electric and magnetic properties...read more

Assurance Reimagined for Telecom Operations Teams

5G 

Charles Thompson, Vice President, Service Assurance

Spirent Communications

5G brings huge changes to telecom networks, from open radio networks to ultra-low latencies to customizable network slices and more. Communication service providers (CSPs) are banking on these innovat...read more

What is 5G NR-U or New Radio-Unlicensed?

5G 

Editorial Team

Nov 5, 2022
5G New Radio-Unlicensed (NR-U) is a 3GPP Release 16 mode of operation that provides the necessary technology for cellular operations to integrate unlicensed spectrum into 5G networks. NR-U enables bot...read more

Top Eight Frequently Asked Questions about RF Drive Testing

Test & Measurement 

Editorial Team

thinkRF

What is RF drive testing?Drive testing is the process of collecting samples of RF signals while driving in a certain geographical area. As you're driving and collecting these samples, the samples ...read more

Towards the Next Wireless Communications Standard - 6G

6G 

Dr. Taro Eichler

Rohde & Schwarz

The prospect of offering large contiguous frequency bands to meet the demand for extremely high data transfer rates in the Terabit/s range will drive the next generation of wireless communications - 6...read more

5G vs 4G Technology

5G LTE 

Editorial Team

Sep 14, 2022
5G (fifth-generation) technology is the successor to 4G/LTE cellular technology. Telecom operators began deploying 5G networks worldwide from 2019 and the number of 5G networks have been consistently ...read more

Reading the Tea Leaves on 5G/Wi-Fi Convergence

5G Wi-Fi 

Fanny Mlinarsky and Steve Douglas

Spirent Communications

To most end-users, wireless is just wireless: “Cellular, Wi-Fi, whatever, just get me to my digital content and applications.” This in itself is an extraordinary achievement. The fact that...read more

UWB - The New Short-Range Networking Standard in 5G Applications

5G IoT 

Alex Pluemer

Mouser Electronics

As the planet upgrades to 5G, connectivity will be an increasingly important factor in consumer electronics and industrial implementations, ranging from smartwatches and laptops to inventory managemen...read more

The RF PoL: A Special Breed of Point of Load Converters

5G Amplifiers GaN LDMOS Millimeter Waves 

Masashi Nogawa

Staff Systems Engineer at Qorvo

The air around us all is a sea of radio emissions from a few tens of kHz up to tens of GHz and transmitters' power levels from milliwatt power to megawatts for the biggest ‘longwave’ b...read more

Software Defined Radio Use Case for Interoperability

Software Defined Radios 

Per Vices Team

Per Vices

This is the 11th article in a series exploring capabilities and applications of software defined radio (SDR) platforms in today’s industries. This article will focus on applications that demand ...read more

What is 3GPP Release 18?

5G 

Editorial Team

Jan 9, 2022
While the 3GPP Release 17 specifications are being finalized, 3GPP has already started to lay the foundations for the next version, Release 18. 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) is expected to...read more

Seven Predictions for the Coming Year of 5G

5G Millimeter Waves Satellite Wi-Fi 

Stephen Douglas

Spirent Communications

If it seems like we’re still in early days of 5G, that’s because we are. I know this firsthand. As we help service providers test their networks and services, we tend to get a good sense o...read more