From the course: Introduction to 5G
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Key performance indicators
From the course: Introduction to 5G
Key performance indicators
- [Instructor] Now let's come to the key performance indicators, and I always say 5G is both very boring as well as very exciting. It is boring because it follows the trends we have observed over the last years as we move from 1G to 2G, 3G, and 4G. Things always improved by an order of magnitude, data rate always multiplied by 10 or 100, number of devices increased, criticality improved. Now, the exciting thing about 5G is that for the first time it is so good that it can support a lot of the industry processes. So latency is very low. Hey, it's so low, I can replace my physical cable, my ethernet, with a wireless system now. And this is what is one of the most exciting developments within 5G. Let's compare the 4G and 5G KPIs. So you see the table here, which 5G PPP produced, and I want to highlight three of these KPIs. So, the user experienced data rate, so we're not talking about peak rate, that's what you'll experience in average. So in 4G it's about 10 megabits per second, and in…
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