5G technology advantages

- [Instructor] Being able to see 5G technology for what it is and what kind of advantages it will yield is an exciting effort. Let's take a moment to review some advantages 5G has over other wireless solutions. Earlier in this course we covered five technological advancements included in the rollout of 5G. We covered millimeter waves, small cells, massive MIMO, beamforming, and full duplex. However these are advancements, not advantages. Let's take a look at two key technology advantages in the simplest of terms, speed and capacity. 5G has a download speed of one to 10 gigabits per second, in comparison to the maximum download speed of 4G, it is just under one gigabit per second. Therefore at the very least the slowest 5G network is as fast as a 4G+ advanced network. This kind of speed will begin to give users a sense of instant connectiveness that they are not even aware they are missing yet. The second advantage is data capacity. Data capacity is the average size of the data that can be transferred. The data capacity for 4G LTE is 100 megabits per second for data coming into the device and 50 megabits per second for data going out of the device. Because of massive MIMO and full duplex the data capacity for 5G is 10 times that of 4G at one gigabit per second for data coming into the device and 500 megabits per second for data going out of the device. When considering these advantages it's easy and tempting to jump straight to the optimal effect and stop right there. For example, my movies download super fast or my Google searches instantaneously resolve. These results are fun, but let's take these advancements and look at bit further. One major advantage of 5G is its ability to deliver just-in-time solutions. As an example, 5G smart roads may be able to recognize critical indicators of a vehicle accident and trigger actions to connected vehicles. Another advantage is that 5G networks can make the complex and invisible easy for us to see. For example, we know how to digitize a map of every protein event in the body, however the size of the data set was too large to be commercially useful. It is possible that 5G can overcome this limitation and help us to understand our state of health in a way that anticipates breakdown and repairs it before we ever feel the symptoms. 5G networks can help us accelerate our understanding of the future through pattern recognition. For example, 5G networks could enable more accurate prediction of tsunamis and earthquakes, or they can recognize tiny patterns that lead to the ups and downs in the stock market. These are three examples of the advantages that arrive when constraints of speed and capacity are reduced using 5G networks. Just-in-time solutions, make visible the invisible, and pattern recognition are three examples of the advantages that can arrive when constraints of speed and capacity are reduced using 5G networks.