NXP Smarter World Tour Truck with Ted Rappaport: Brooklyn 5G Summit

Attendees of the 2016 Brooklyn 5G Summit, and even passers-by on the NYU Tandon campus in Brooklyn, NY got a chance to walk through one of the coolest rolling exhibits of high-tech anyone has ever seen. Dr. Ted Rappaport, founding director of NYU Wireless, walks us along the cutting edge of IoT… as far as …

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National Instruments unveils mmWave SDR to speed 5G research

National Instruments (NI) took the wraps off what it describes as the world’s first software defined radio (SDR) for millimeter wave (mmWave) spectrum. The new transceiver system includes a full transceiver that can transmit and/or receive wide-bandwidth signals at 2 GHz real-time bandwidth, covering spectrum in the E-Band – 71-76 GHz. NI notes that engineers …

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Spectrum Speculation – Telecom News

Although spring officially started at the end of March, the telecommunications industry was showing signs of growth all month long across all geographic regions, business areas, and technological sectors. All this increased content delivery is putting ever-increasing pressure on bandwidth. A newly released J.D. Power wireless network quality report revealed that more customers are using 4G …

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Verizon’s Shammo: 5G pilot in 2017 is all about fixed wireless, not mobility

Verizon CFO Fran Shammo reiterated the company’s commitment to being the first in the U.S. to roll out 5G wireless technology and made it clear that its initial pilot starting in 2017 is all about fixed wireless – not mobility. “Currently, we’re testing 5G technologies this year and we aim to have an initial fixed …

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Brooklyn 5G Summit to Fuel the Next Generation of Lightning-Fast Mobile Communications

Leaders in wireless, automotive, healthcare, academia and government will gather at the third annual Brooklyn 5G Summit April 20-22, 2016 to explore and showcase the latest developments and research aimed at making 5G a commercial reality in telecommunications, machine-to-machine communication, and the Internet of Things (IoT). The invitation-only summit, at New York University’s Tandon School …

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Tom Richardson Delivers Jack Wolf Lecture on Liquid Cloud Storage

Tom Richardson is Vice President of Engineering and leads R&D at Qualcomm’s New Jersey Research Center. Dr. Richardson gave the prestigious Jack Keil Wolf Lecture at Center for Advanced Technology in Telecommunications (CATT) at NYU Tandon School of Engineering on “Liquid Cloud Storage: A New Approach to Large Scale Data Storage”.  He talked about new …

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Jack Keil Wolf Lecture Series: Liquid Cloud Storage

Date: April 14th, 2016, Thursday Time/Location: 11 am, 5 MetroTech Center, LC 400 Thomas Richardson, Qualcomm Abstract: Large scale data storage is evolving as the amount and value of stored digital content continues to rapidly expand.  Reliable distributed storage systems consist of hundreds to tens of thousands of potentially unreliable storage nodes. To protect the data …

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From Teligent to FiberTower to Verizon: An inside look at LMDS, millimeter wave and 5G

It’s no secret that companies including Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile are eying millimeter wave bands like 28 GHz and 39 GHz for their planned 5G tests and networks. And early assessments indicate that these bands can help speed wireless transmissions to 1 Gbps or higher. But this isn’t the first time wireless players have sought …

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EETimes: 5G mmW Models Go Open Source

In an effort to speed 5G development, NYU Tandon’s wireless research center will provide its channel models and measurements for cellular propagation in the millimeter wave (mmW) band as free, open-source software. The simulation will help product developers understand the behavior and capabilities of the mmW radio spectrum. “Generally, individual companies or universities work on …

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