Industry Standards

ZNrun software from Rohde & Schwarz automates Ethernet cable testing in combination with a VNA and switch.

Spectrum sharing prevents cellular communications from interfering with existing military communications.

Dr. Arman Shojaeifard of Interdigital Europe explains the concept behind reconfigurable intelligent surfaces and how the standards group he leads will develop those standards.

A standards group will seek to define a technology for steering reflection of wireless signals.

The latest symposium took a turn toward business use cases at the expense of the usual technical talks, with speakers saying that use cases should drive the technology. Through most of 5G’s development, conference topics generally focused on the technologies such as the radio and network technologies. With much of that settled, talk moved to…

Engineers must consider these design tradeoffs when choosing data storage for embedded, IoT, and network equipment. 5G’s higher data rates adds another factor to the mix.

Corning’s Roshene McCool explains how the SMF-28 Contour fiber reduces light losses, installation costs, and operating costs in fiber connections for 5G, computing, and datacenters.

Keeping Open RAN software secure means containerizing functions, securing each container, and securing the entire software design.

Microchip’s ZL30735 integrates eight DPLLs, five low-output jitter synthesizers, and an IEEE 1588-2008 protocol stack. The splitting of radio access network functions creates an Open RAN that promises greater innovation and features in 5G networks. Splitting the traditional baseband unit into radio units (RU), distribution units (DU) and centralized units (CU) brings timing issues not…

Several themes have begun to emerge in the 6G community, providing some clues as to what the next generation might bring.