Sustainability is at the heart of 6G research, not just in telecom networks and equipment, but throughout the supply chain. If you perform an internet search on “what is 6G?”, you’ll surely see sustainability. The number of companies with goals to be carbon neutral grows daily; they recognize our collective industry actions can not only…

Engineers at university and industry labs perform research into frequencies that could become part of 6G. Now it’s time for use cases.

October 2022 featured two conferences looking at 6G. The metaverse topped both, but engineering and sustainability were featured, too.

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.