Imagine being able to download every HD video on Netflix in just one second… Now, with Japan, we can say yes. Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) achieved a world-record internet data transmission speed of 1.02 petabits per second (Pbps) in a lab setting. What Actually Happened Achieved using a newly developed standard 19-core optical fibre, […]

For the introduction of 5G, 3GPP has specified five possible configurations, or ‘options’, for connecting to an EPC or a new 5G core network (six if the current 4G system is included). The features that distinguish each Option are: Use of Dual Connectivity; Radio Access Technology acting as master node Core Network used. The Options […]