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The 5G Future and the Role of Satellite

January 24, 2019

Today, we are on the verge of seeing what a truly “connected world” looks like. It’s projected that soon there will be 6 billion people, 30 billion devices and 50 billion machines online. That’s essentially everyone and everything connected, across every geography, supporting every application from consumer broadband, mobile gaming and connected cars to global business networks, ships, planes, soldiers, first responders and connected farms. Supporting a connected world is a daunting challenge that today’s telecom infrastructure is simply not equipped to handle. This fact is driving the development of the new 5G networking architecture. The 5G standard promises blazingly fast broadband speeds, exponentially higher efficiencies, massive scalability, significantly lower costs for mobile and fixed networks, and ultra-low latency applications such as connected car and massive M2M and IoT applications.

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The 5G Future and the Role of Satellite