Virtual RAN Still Seems To Be North Worth the Effort

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Laboratory speed tests are to 5G what a drag race in a sports car is to the average motorist. Just as no driver of a Nissan Note on London roads will ever have need for a 200mph engine, no smartphone user requires a 5.5Gbit/s mobile service to watch Netflix, play games, send messages or visit Elon Musk’s social-media house of horrors (or digital town square, as he calls it). In any case, most of this probably happens on Wi-Fi rather than cellular networks.

But none of that stops technology developers from pushing the envelope, and Verizon, one of the biggest telcos in North America, now claims to have “shattered” the 5.5Gbit/s “speed barrier” in a lab trial. As if to prove how unnecessary it all is, Verizon in its press release included the real-world detail that 5.5 Gbit/s is enough to download 266 Taylor Swift albums in a minute. Because that’s exactly the sort of thing a normal person wants to do.

Still, in a typically quiet week of the year for telecom news, some of the technology specifics hold interest. The trial used Samsung’s 5G network equipment and a device powered by a Mediatek processor. Verizon also appears to have combined

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