Telefónica

Telefónica Deutschland and Samsung Electronics agreed on 20 Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) trials in Germany. About 20 households in Hamburg will test the Gigabit technology from November over a period of three months.

Second Proof of Concept for the applicability of SDN to wireless Transport Networks through open protocols. This progammable capabilities permit to adapt transport resources to the dynamic nature of 5G services. Information model defined and tested. Standardized as ONF TR-532 in December 2016.

Telefonica and Huawei achieved 5G tests, using ‘user centric and no cell (UCNC) RAN architecture’. Results showed latency decreasing by 95% compared with ‘state-of the-art’ LTE. Meanwhile, Huawei and Telefonica also achieved the demonstration of mmWave Multi-User MIMO technology based on 5G New Radio (NR) and Massive MIMO TDD technology. 

Telefonica and ZTE completed ‘Pre-5G’ Massive Multiple-Input, Multiple-Output (MIMO) live testing in Madrid. All tests were based on existing 4G terminals.

Telefonica tested Nokia’s XGS-PON fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) technology in its labs as a potential mobile backhaul technology for 5G and for aggregated remote access node traffic. The company said that XGS-PON delivered symmetrical speeds of up to 10 Gb/s, which is faster than current GPON technology that Telefonica has deployed.

3.5 GHz LTE TDD Massive MIMO outfield trial, running 16 terminals simultaneously over 20MHz spectrum on the 3.5 GHz band with a peak downlink rate of 650 Mbps on the Telefonica O2 sub network in Munich

Trial on novel transport solution for integrated fron-haul/back-haul networks. InterDigital, Inc. announced the successful trial and evaluation of the company’s millimeter wave (mmW) EdgeLin 60GHz solution and Fast-Forward 70GHz solution that meets new 5G transport requirements as defined by the various 5G standardization groups in 3GPP, ETSI, IEEE, and eCPRI. The solution proved the feasibility […]

Telefonica and ZTE completed the ‘first phase’ of a 5G transport trial in Madrid, by using ZTE’s new ‘5G Flexhaul’ transport solution. They will now be focusing on E2E 5G solutions.

Engineering firm ASTI and 5G innovation lab 5TONIC are testing 5G applicability in ASTI Mobile Robotics’ AGVs (automated guided vehicles).

FITUR 2018 to anticipate future applications of 5G technology for the tourism industry.