5G technology makes possible the convenience of business ratings appearing as you walk down the street or switching seamlessly between camera views during a sports game, or providing seamless transitions from HD camera footage during live sport broadcasts. Furthermore, its reach will expand into new industries including safer transportation, remote healthcare delivery, precision agriculture and digitized logistics – becoming everyday realities in their respective sectors.
Speed
By employing shorter wavelengths than older wireless technologies, 5G networks can process data at much higher rates. Peak speeds may differ depending upon your proximity to a cell tower and surrounding environment.
5G not only boasts high download speeds but also has very low latency – the amount of time between information being sent and received – making it ideal for Internet of Things devices that must communicate rapidly with each other as well as cloud services. This feature makes 5G an attractive solution.
Self-driving cars could use 5G to rapidly exchange instructions with each other and road signals, helping avoid accidents and reduce traffic congestion. Augmented reality games would also benefit from this speed by enabling players to move more smoothly within in-game environments; this may even reduce battery drain on AR games thereby increasing play times. Currently, human reactions average 250 milliseconds.
Latency
Latency can be an issue when gaming over cellular, as even the slightest delay can cause you to miss shots in first-person shooters or mishandle turns in racing games. 5G eliminates such delays by increasing speed while simultaneously decreasing latency through mobile edge computing.
5G allows games to connect directly with smaller servers nearer the network for quicker, lower latency gameplay. This provides for a much richer, immersive and seamless gaming experience!
Although some 5G networks boast speeds that exceed 10Gbps, most networks rely on lower-band frequencies to cover wider areas. All three major carriers employ a technique called Dynamic Spectrum Sharing (DSS) to prioritize 4G devices on each tower over 5G networks – slowing them down considerably – though their speeds will improve as more countries transition to millimeter wave (5G+).
Reliability
While 5G technology aims to offer users speed and latency at their fingertips, its impressive reliability profile makes it the ideal solution for millions of internet of things devices that must meet stringent performance specifications, such as those needed in remote healthcare, digitalized logistics or safe transport environments.
T-Mobile continues to lead in improving 5G availability and speed since our previous 2023 State of the Mobile Union report, leading our rankings in 125 markets for C-Band deployments and recording top availability rates in 111 cities–far more than AT&T or Verizon combined.
For reliable wireless communication in 5G networks, it is critical that all network clocks synchronize precisely. VIAVI PTP Testing solution ensures timing error limits set forth by IEEE 1588 are met on network components downstream from a primary clock.
Scalability
5G can offer consumers a whole new array of experiences they’ll appreciate, from multiplayer cloud gaming to shopping with augmented reality – it makes connecting and engaging with everything around you faster and more reliably than ever before.
Comparative to 4G, 5G offers lower latency and the ability to support many more connected devices simultaneously. Furthermore, its transmitter cells (commonly referred to as ‘cells’) feature smaller footprints while using less power.
5G makes this possible through edge computing – more specifically data hubs closer to end users that allow mobile phones to interact directly without sending data back and forth through distant servers, which could otherwise slow communication down significantly.