Seeing 5G in action
You could see this setup on stage during the Wednesday morning keynote but not on the NI Week exhibition floor. That’s because it contains sensitive technology that its creators at Nokia want to keep close to the vest. The setup is a recreation of a proof of concept for a 10 Gbps cellular access system operating in the E band (73 GHz) with a latency below 1 msec. Nokia engineers first ran the demo at the company’s Brooklyn 5G summit. The original demo was noteworthy in that it worked over a 200 m range and convinced some skeptics that 10 Gbps was practical at millimeter wave frequencies. The system uses two PXI chassis running LabVIEW FPGA that act as the link, one as the base station, the other as the user handset. The system implements 2×2 MIMO, hence the two microwave horns visible in the images, and single-carrier noncyclic prefix for modulation.
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