2020 will be the year when all popular flagship and mid-range phones will be 5G ready, even if all they actually offer are bragging rights. Eventually, the 5th generation of mobile communication technology is going to open up a lot of new, exciting horizons for humans to explore. With this new generation of devices, we will be able to realize things that couldn’t have possibly crossed our minds a couple of decades ago.
What is 5G NR? Is it the same as 5G?
Mobile networking started in 1980 with the inception of the first handheld mobile which supported voice calling. Over the next three generations, we saw phones evolving to offer texting support, web browsing, and high-speed internet for meeting our day-to-day needs.
Now with the fifth generation of mobile connectivity, 5G, we are set to experience lots of unprecedented features that have the capability to completely transform the way we currently live.
Basically, when you think of 5G, you can hope for two improvements
- Faster speeds
- More network reliability (useful for critical 5G applications like self-driving cars, Industrial IoT)
5G NR or 5G New Radio is the 5G standard that the entire industry has adopted moving forward, and for all practical purposes, it’s now synonymous with 5G. 5G NR supports sub-6GHz and mmWave (24-100GHz) frequency bands and has two deployment models:
NSA or non-Standalone access 5G
NSA 5G is what we will mostly see for the next few years. NSA 5G will require Telecom service providers to improve and build upon the existing advanced 4G LTE networks for better speeds, but only moderate improvements in reliability. Most countries, including India, are preparing for sub-6GHz NSA 5G NR. Some countries, including USA, have Sub 6GHz and mmWave based NSA 5G NR.
Standalone 5G
Standalone 5G will use core 5G networks for low latency connectivity, or in other words, this will be the deployment that shall deliver the promised 5G reliability. For now, only SK Telecom in South Korea is the only network operator to have deployed Standalone 5G NR network. We will see Standalone 5G in enterprise-related projects like smart cities in the near future.
With 5G we are going to experience data transfer rates which are at least 10X greater than the earlier generation of networks. They are touted to have very low latency rates and bring in higher reliability to our networks. Let us see what these features might mean to us in a real-world situation.
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