5G is the 5th generation of mobile network. to not only interconnect people, but also interconnect and control machines, objects, and devices. It will deliver new levels of performance and efficiency that will empower new user experiences and connect new industries.
Beyond speed improvement, 5G is expected to unleash a massive IoT (Internet of Things) ecosystem where networks can serve communication needs for billions of connected devices, with the right trade-offs between speed, latency, and cost.
How fast is 5G?
5G tops out at 10 gigabits per second (Gbps). 5G is 10 to x100 faster than what you can get with 4G.
What is 5G low latency?
5G technology offers an extremely low latency rate, the delay between the sending and receiving of information. From 200 milliseconds for 4G, we go down to 1 millisecond (1ms) with 5G.
Just think about it! The average reaction time for humans to a visual stimulus is 250 ms. Imagine now that your car could react 250 times faster than you could. Imagine it could also respond to hundreds of incoming information and can communicate its reactions back to other vehicles and road signals all within milliseconds.
At 100km/h, the reaction distance is about 30 meters before you pull on the brakes. With a 1ms reaction time, the car would only have rolled a bit more than one inch (less than 3 centimeters).
Use cases associated with low latency are:
V2X (Vehicle-to-Everything) communication: V2V: (Vehicle-to-Vehicle), V2I (Vehicle-to-Infrastructure), autonomous, connected cars.
· Immersive Virtual Reality Gaming (5G will bring VR to the masses)
· Remote surgical operations (aka telesurgery)
· Simultaneous translating.
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