Last week I went to the 3^rd annual Brooklyn 5G Summit – an event hosted by Nokia and the New York University (NYU) Wireless, NYU Tandon School of Engineering and IEEE communication society. The theme of the summit this year was “Making 5G a commercial reality”.  The two-day event packed even more speakers, industry ingenuity and interesting ideas than a future 5G network could carry.  The speakers represented the full scope of the industry – service providers from around the globe, equipment providers (including our competition), academics, regulatory authorities and industry partners from the automotive and health sectors.

The event was also broadcast to more than 2,700 online participants via IEEE. In addition to the talks the conference included live demos from 5G mmWave using phased arrays, 5G Massive capacity and connectivity to 5G Network slicing and services and a huge semi- truck the NXP Smarter World Tour rolled into town showing the NXP secure connectivity solutions for embedded applications.

As one industry analyst recognized, the 5G Brooklyn Summit is a different kind of event exactly for that reason: it brings together all the pieces of the puzzle for actual conversation and information sharing. This honest dialog and exchange needs to happen more. Only with this tight alignment will 5G build on its lofty goals – not only to transform the telco industry – but the world as we know it.

Read the full article at: Nokia.com