Solving the 5G Spectrum Challenge

July 2013

jjohnston

In his ongoing blog series, <a class="offsite" href="http://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/4395377/Waveforms">Waveforms</a> on the technology website <a class="offsite" href="http://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/4395377/Waveforms">EDN</a>, Jim Nolan, Executive Vice President of Research and Development and head of InterDigital Labs, shares his views on <a class="offsite" href="http://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/waveforms/4418288/Samsung-and-5G--A-reality-check">solving the 5G spectrum challenge</a> and Samsung’s recent “5G” announcement.
As a wireless R&D company, <a href="http://www.interdigital.com/">InterDigital</a> works to solve many of the inherent issues associated with network speed and capacity, often a decade ahead of market deployment, and mmWave and “5G” technologies have been a focus area for a few years.  In this post, Jim discusses the reality of 5G, and the problems that InterDigital, and others, are working to solve before becoming consumer ready.
<a class="offsite" href="http://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/waveforms/4418288/Samsung-and-5G--A-reality-check">Read the full article on the EDN website now</a>. Also, to see what InterDigital is busy with in terms of 5G and mmWave research, go to the InterDigital Vault at <a href="http://vault.interdigital.com">http://vault.interdigital.com</a> and enter “5G” as a search term.