"The commercialization of 5g is coming soon.
As in previous years, 5g is destined to be one of the key words on this year's ces. The commercial application of 5g technology is approaching day by day, and Qualcomm, Intel and other companies are making efforts to this end.
As a basic technology, 5g is not cool enough compared with AI, blockchain and CES's favorite unmanned car. Its imagination has been slightly overdrawn in the publicity in the past few years, and everyone's expectations may be slightly less.
However, the 5g speed is more than 10 times faster than the 4G LTE currently used, which can make video, VR games and even unmanned vehicles run more smoothly, and will accelerate the popularization of the Internet of things. Many technologies and products exhibited at CES will rely on 5g technology.
Most importantly, the application of 5g technology is close to large-scale commercial. The industry generally expects its commercial time to be around 2020. Compared with the popularization of AI, blockchain and unmanned vehicle, it can be said that it is within reach.
5g figure on CES site
At this exhibition, manufacturers such as Qualcomm, ZTE and Samsung will show 5g technology. Although most exhibitors did not mark it as the theme, 5g ultra-high network speed is the basis for the Internet of things, driverless, AI and VR / AR to go to the market. It can be said that 5g is a low-key main line in CES.
In the past year, the main line of 5g development is still carrying out infrastructure construction and formulating standards step by step.
In terms of 5g standard, at the 78th plenary meeting of 3gppran on December 20, 2017, "5gnr" independent networking air interface standard was officially frozen and released. This is the most critical progress in 5g standard formulation in the past year. The completion time of 5g independent networking standardization was advanced from June 2018 to December 2017, which greatly accelerated the 5g commercial process.
The functional part of 5g independent Networking (SA) standard will be frozen in June 2018, and the overall standard will be frozen in the third quarter. At that time, the first version of 5g global standard will be officially determined.
In terms of infrastructure construction, chip enterprises, telecom enterprises and operators are actively laying out.
As the main promoter of 5g, chip companies such as Qualcomm and Intel have improved the rhythm of 5g business. In last year's MWC, nearly 20 companies said that 5g new radio technology (5g NR) will be deployed on a large scale in 2019, one year ahead of the previously expected 2020.
At ces2018, Qualcomm announced that it would cooperate with major global telecom operators such as at & T, Verizon, China Mobile and KT to prepare for the promotion of 5g network.
Amun said that in the future, Qualcomm will mainly invest in two directions in mobile, one is the transformation to mobile, and the other is the new equipment, new stage, new users and new cooperation in the process of 4G to 5g transformation.
In terms of potential 5g application scenarios such as cars, mobile phones and VR, Qualcomm also announced more partners at this conference, including Honda, BYD and Jaguar Land Rover in cars, Google, HTC, LG, Samsung and Sony in mobile phones, Facebook and Xiaomi in VR.
It is worth mentioning that Qualcomm also announced the radio frequency front end (RFFE) at the conference, and OME manufacturers such as Google, HTC, LG, Samsung and Sony mobile have signed contracts with Qualcomm. At present, 5g wireless service will require mobile phones to be able to connect multiple frequency bands. The current solution to this problem is to increase the number of RF chips. The product allows the terminal to accept different frequencies, so that the mobile phone does not need to install multiple RF chips.
In the past 2017, Qualcomm successively released a new air interface prototype of 3GPP standard, a modem and a 5g mobile terminal model. According to Qualcomm's plan, 5g smartphones and networks will be commercially available in the first half of 2019, and Xiaolong X50 5g smartphones will be released in 2019.
Last February, Qualcomm announced the successful completion of its first 5g connection based on 3GPP 5g new air interface (5g NR) standard. The 5g connection is completed by Qualcomm's 5g new air interface prototype system below 6GHz, which can achieve a data rate of thousands of megabits per second and significantly reduce the delay compared with the current 4G LTE network. The system can operate in the intermediate frequency band from 3.3GHz to 5.0ghz. Qualcomm also announced the X20 LTE modem.
Qualcomm announced that the company has completed the first 5g connection test on mobile devices. Qualcomm has completed this test using X50 5g modem based on 28ghz millimeter wave solution. Gaotong said that X50 achieved Gigabit transmission speed in this test. Once the complete 5g network is deployed, its speed can reach 5Gbps.
In November, Qualcomm, ZTE and China Mobile jointly completed 5g end-to-end interworking based on 3.5GHz in China. In the same month, Qualcomm also announced the 5g patent licensing fee standard.
At this CES, although Intel's theme is artificial intelligence and quantum computing, kozaiqi also showed how Intel introduced 5g into this year's Korean Winter Olympics.
Last November, Intel released the first multi-mode commercial modem family supporting 5g new air interface (5g NR), and implemented it based on Intel ® Complete end-to-end connection of 5g modem. Among them, Intel ® XMM ™ The 7560 modem has achieved Gigabit speed. Earlier, Intel also released the industry's first 5g NR supporting test platform - the third generation Intel 5g mobile test platform.
In terms of communication solution providers, ZTE, Huawei, Ericsson and other companies are also investing heavily in simulation experiments.
At CES, ZTE not only brought products such as the folding smartphone ZTE Tianji axon m and blade series, but also showed the wireless gateway mf288 released at the Americas exhibition last year. This product supports Gigabit data transmission and cooperates with ZTE's own pre5g Giga + MBB wireless network solution, with a maximum download rate of nearly 1Gbps per second.
ZTE said it had established a 5g R & D team with more than 4500 people and invested 3 billion yuan in 5g R & D every year. In November last year, ZTE and Softbank of Japan started 5g test in the 4.5ghz band and planned to be commercial in 2020. In addition, ZTE will work with Italian operators to build Europe's first 5g pre commercial network in the 3.6-3.8ghz band.
During the China Mobile Global Partner Conference in November last year, Huawei released the world's first miniaturized 5g pre commercial CPE prototype in the 3.5GHz band, and demonstrated the 16 channel 4K UHD video real-time on demand service based on the 5g end-to-end solution with China Mobile Research Institute, with a single user peak rate of more than 1.3gbps.
Deutsche Telekom also cooperated with Huawei to achieve a downlink rate of more than 2GBIT / s and a delay of only 3 milliseconds on the 5g connection on its central Berlin network. This demonstration was carried out in the 3.7GHz band.
In Europe, Ericsson also cooperated with Intel and telia to deploy the first batch of public 5g existing network use cases in Europe, including obtaining high-speed Internet connection for commercial passenger ships through 5g when entering the port, and remotely controlling excavator construction through 5g existing network.
In addition, in December last year, Samsung announced that it had cooperated with Japanese telecom operator KDDI to complete the demonstration of 5g technology on a running high-speed railway, with both uplink and downlink peak rates reaching 1.7gbps. It was reported last September that Samsung Electronics and SK Telecom have successfully completed the first handover of 4G and 5g networks, which is the first handover of 4G LTE with 2.6GHz spectrum and 5g networks with 28ghz and 3.5GHz spectrum.
Competition among telecom operators
Telecom operators are also scrambling to try to launch 5g services and compete for spectrum resources.
Recently, American telecom operator at & T announced that it will take the lead in providing 5g network services in more than a dozen cities in the United States by the end of 2018. In addition, they will provide a device that supports 5g network.
Meanwhile, at & T's competitor Verizon, in cooperation with Samsung, will deploy "commercial 5g fixed wireless access network" (FWA) in Sacramento, California, in the second half of 2018. Verizon plans to launch commercial fixed 5g broadband services in three to five cities in the United States by the end of this year.
T-Mobile also announced that it plans to launch real national 5g services in 2019 and fully launch them by 2020. Previously, Verizon itself had a large number of 28 GHz spectrum resources. After the acquisition of straightpath communication, Verizon's total 28 GHz spectrum resources available for millimeter wave 5g network deployment have increased significantly by 20%.
Major telecom operators are also spending a lot of money to seize spectrum resources. Verizon successfully completed the acquisition of straightpath communication. Previously, Verizon itself had a large number of 28 GHz spectrum resources. After the acquisition, the total amount of 28 GHz spectrum resources that Verizon can use for millimeter wave 5g network deployment has increased significantly by 20%. T-Mobile spent $8 billion to acquire the 600MHz band from the FCC.
In China, the three operators are also actively deploying. The three operators plan to start 5g pre commercial in 2019 and realize commercial operation around 2020.
China Mobile said it was planning to build the world's largest narrowband Internet of things (NB IOT). According to the 5g development schedule of China Mobile, the technical test will be completed in 2017, the scale test will be carried out in 2018, the pre commercial stage will be entered in 2019 and the commercial stage will be officially entered in 2020. The 5g independent networking version led by the company will be completed in June this year.
China Mobile plans to deploy 10000 commercial 5g base stations in 2020. The mobile company opened China's first 5g base station in Guangdong last June.
China Telecom plans to carry out medium-sized 5g field experiments in many cities across the country in 2018 to prepare for 5g trial commercial use in 2019 and large-scale commercial use later. Since October 2017, China Telecom announced the official opening of 5g base stations, and selected six cities such as xiong'an, Shenzhen, Shanghai, Suzhou, Chengdu and Lanzhou as the first batch.
In March last year, 5g was also written into the government work report for the first time. Deng Zhonghan, one of the leaders of 5g major special evaluation team, introduced that all relevant standards will be formulated in 2018, enter the on-site demonstration and demonstration stage in 2019, and realize the formal commercial use of 5g in 2020. In December, the Ministry of industry and information technology announced that the second phase of China's 5g technology research and development has been completed, and the network architecture and other technologies have become international standards.
5g commercial is just around the corner
In terms of terminals, mobile phones and cars are the two most important scenarios of 5g.
At this CES, Samsung also released the 5g connected car plan. Samsung released TCU remote control system, which is known as "the first 5g vehicle solution in the industry". With the support of c-v2x technology supporting cellular network connection, Samsung and Harman's 5g solution enables cars to communicate directly with traffic lights, external traffic management systems and other vehicles. In other words, TCU can be used as the connection point between individual vehicles and large transportation network.
Samsung said that the new generation of TCU is compatible with the existing 4G cat 16 network. In the future, the platform can also be directly upgraded to 5g network with higher bandwidth. At the same time, Samsung also said that it has signed a cooperation agreement with a leading European automobile manufacturer, which has become the company's first customer.
In addition, mainstream mobile phone manufacturers are preparing 5g mobile phones.
Huawei announced the launch of its first 5g commercially available mobile phone in 2019, and launched a 5g supporting Kirin chip in the same year. It is reported that Apple will also launch the first mobile phone supporting 5g networking technology in 2019. Lei Jun also said that Xiaomi will become the first batch of manufacturers to successfully release 5g mobile phones. Vivo plans to launch 5g prototype in 2018, and it is expected to increase the scale in 2021. CCS insight, a research institution, predicts that by 2021, the sales of 5g smart phones will reach 300 million, accounting for about 15% of the total global sales.
Although 5g is still some time away from full popularization, from the plan of chip giants and telecom enterprises, we can see the commercial use of 5g and the listing of 5g mobile phones next year.
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