Apr 6, 2021 4:50pm
According to Verizon, repeaters are especially beneficial in dense urban areas with multiple buildings and floors like apartment buildings and dormitories. (FierceWireless)
Verizon is adding signal repeaters from FRTek and SureCall to give a boost to its 5G Ultra Wideband service, which uses the millimeter wave (mmWave) frequencies to deliver super-fast speeds.
mmWave offers great capacity and speed but has that well-known problem with coverage; the signals don’t travel far or penetrate structures like lower-band spectrum does. So, the repeaters are useful for all those folks working or studying from home during the pandemic.
However, Verizon points out that its mobility, home and business customers will all benefit from the extended coverage resulting from the current deployment of these repeaters.
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We’ve heard about 5G network slicing for a while now and although testing has progressed, the industry is yet to make large deployments.
But why, and when can we expect the technology to hit the US?
There are two key things to know about network slicing. First, it isn’t necessarily a new concept and, second the type of implementation most are talking about in a 5G context requires a standalone (SA) core.
Adam Koeppe, Verizon SVP of technology planning and development, told