The future of virtualization

Utility and energy is emerging as a key use case for private 4G and 5G networks, both on localized sites and across wide and rural areas. With power stations, energy grids, pipelines, wastewater plants and other utility and energy facilities a key part of national infrastructure, supporting mission-critical apps within this industry with reliable wireless infrastructure that can support increasing data demands and bandwidth requirements, will be essential.

Virtualization is becoming a core business strategy everywhere. Nearly every business is nowadays using some form of virtualization technology.

3GPP has defined 5G-NR with a modulation that inherently reduces energy efficiency of linear transmitters. This causes thermal problems from the dissipated power, which is a particular difficulty for massive-MIMO arrays. Temperature rise from transmitter power dissipation limits the array size that can be safely built. Achieving the multiple business objectives for 5G installations requires solving this problem, and using Sampling technologies is showing great promise to meeting this goal. This presentation presents the physical basis of this thermal problem, and shows how the sampling operation of the switch-mode mixer modulator (SM3) solves not only the thermal problem but also how, using the SM3, signal bandwidth efficiency is increased to 14 bits per symbol (16,384-QAM) with modulation within 0.5% of ideal.

Mobile operators have invested hundreds of billions of dollars into spectrum licenses, RAN equipment and network optimizations. Despite these massive investments, operators today have minimal insight into the amount and effect of external and unintended internal RF interference within their networks. Join this must-attend webinar to benefit from key insights derived from the recently completed trials of our revolutionary machine learning spectrum analytics solution, Spectrum-NET, with ten leading operators across the globe.