SiBEAM announced today they have joined the university research center as an industrial-affiliate sponsor of fundamental research that is creating the next generation of wireless technologies, also known as “5G.”
The announcement comes as the Federal Communications Commission explores the potential of mobile radio services in the millimeter-wave (mmWave) radio spectrum—an area in which NYU WIRELESS is developing the fundamental science and mathematical channel models needed to develop 5G equipment and in which SiBEAM is a technological leader and industry pioneer of semiconductor solutions.
Researchers around the world are envisioning that new technology using the mmWave spectrum could increase today’s mobile data capacity by a thousand-fold or more—essential for meeting demand that will explode by 60 percent or more annually for decades to come. The use of the mmWave spectrum is emerging as practical through the pioneering radio propagation and system simulation work at NYU WIRELESS and SiBEAM’s mmWave semiconductor products.
The New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering launched NYU WIRELESS in August 2012. Focused on mass-deployable wireless devices across a wide range of applications and markets, NYU WIRELESS is the first university center to combine wireless, computing, and medical applications research. NYU WIRELESS includes more than 20 faculty members and 100 graduate students from the NYU School of Engineering Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, and the NYU Langone School of Medicine. SiBEAM is the 13th industrial-affiliate sponsor of the research center.
