SK Telecom has joined hands with Samsung to demo 7.55Gbps data transmission speed using millimeter-wave (mmWave) frequency bands at the Mobile World Congress (MWC 2015).
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3D Beamforming, an antenna technology that supports high-speed data transmission, will be applied to demonstrate speed of 7.55Gbps. The technology compensates high propagation loss, which arises with the use of millimeter-wave frequencies, by producing a pencil beam and steering the direction of radio signals.
SK Telecom and Samsung will also show the Full Dimension MIMO that utilizes tens to hundreds of antennas, surpassing the maximum of eight antennas defined in the current LTE-Advanced standardization.
The strategy of SK Telecom and Samsung is to further strengthen their presence in the area of 5G through the demonstration at MWC 2015. The main objective is to commercially deploy 5G network in 2020 and become the first vendor and service provider to do so.
“Samsung Electronics has built the most advanced 4G LTE telecommunications infrastructure in the world by working closely with other Korean companies,” said Cheun Kyung-whoon, executive vice president and IoT Solution Team Leader in Digital Media & Communications R&D Center, Samsung Electronics.
Baburajan K
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