5G EDITORIAL & GUEST OPINIONS
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4 Things You Need To Know About 5G’s Massive Potential
Despite these challenges, 5G network technology and RF are going to revolutionize the way we communicate; 5G by delivering more speed and more reliable connections and RF doing things such as solving line-of-sight problems. Still, issues such as cost and compatibility with existing equipment could slow the deployment and adoption of these technologies. But the payoffs – improved coverage, greater reliability, faster communication speeds, and easier remote access – are too good to be ignored.
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Can 3D Printing Solve The Semiconductor Shortage?
Semiconductors have been in short supply for the past couple of years and some experts don’t expect the supply of these little wonders to return to acceptable levels anytime soon. Those in need of semiconductors are learning to cope by designing for ability, leveraging AI, and finding the right logistics partners. There is one more solution to talk about: 3D printing.
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How GaN Is Transforming 5G
Gallium nitride (GaN) technology first came on the scene in the 1990s and since then has helped to push the envelope and further revolutionize technology, allowing for new, higher-demand applications. Now it’s being looked at as a way to help improve 5G network performance.
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The Military And 5G: Things Are Starting To Heat Up
5G will play a key role in the future success of the U.S. military but only if it is deployed quickly and in a manner to withstand the harshest of environments.
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Digital Twins And RF: A Look At How The Two Are Intertwined
Digital twins have been around, conceptually, since the early 1990s. Now the technology – which consists of the physical object or process and its physical environment, the digital representation of the object or process, and the communication channel between the physical and virtual representations – is becoming more and more common, including in the RF world.
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3 Developing Military Intelligence Technologies To Be Aware Of
Two new technologies, as well as a new spin on one legacy technology, are coming to the forefront of the U.S. military’s must-have list.
5G NEWS FEATURES

Back Channel presents the most captivating news and innovations in RF and microwaves. This week, we look at why Lockheed Martin is giving money to Northumbria University, how RF is helping find missing people, an end to my wife and me debating sell-by dates, and more.
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Back Channel — The Shortest Electron Pulses Ever, New EW Warfare Device Causing Concern Among Ukrainian Forces, AR Headset Gives Wearer X-ray Vision, And More
Back Channel presents the most captivating news and innovations in RF and microwaves. This week, we look at the projected growth of the RF Interconnect market, explore hidden universes, celebrate Hispanic visionaries, and more.
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Back Channel — Pressure To Design In Tighter Spaces, World’s First Advanced-Ready 5G Modem RF Chip, 3D Lightning, And More
Back Channel presents the most captivating news and innovations in RF and microwaves. This week, we explore a couple of markets, congratulate an NSF CAREER award winner, and more.
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Back Channel — What Does MTT-S Have Planned, New Options For High-Powered RF Waveguides, Encoding Secrets With Color, And More
Back Channel presents the most captivating news and innovations in RF and microwaves. This week, Howard University becomes the first HBCU to lead a UARC, growing ‘perfect’ atom-thin materials, Old Crows looking for fresh faces, and more.
5G NEWS
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Faststream’s new DFE SoC combines hardened Digital Front End (DFE) blocks with adaptive logic DFE solution incorporating CFR, DPD, an integrated direct RF sampling transceiver and enables more processing per channel.
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Rohde & Schwarz has conducted a channel-sounding measurement campaign performed in an urban micro scenario as well as an indoor scenario at 158 GHz and 300 GHz on the Rohde & Schwarz campus in Munich, Germany to understand the propagation characteristics of THz frequencies.
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Rohde & Schwarz submitted its latest 5G NR protocol conformance test cases to the Global Certification Forum (GCF) at the GCF CAG#72 meeting in October 2022 and successfully passed verification.
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The voice and audio analysis expert HEAD acoustics has decided in favor of the 5G test solution from Rohde & Schwarz for verification of voice and audio services of 5G mobile devices.
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A Wireless Broadband Alliance cross-industry survey reveals Wi-Fi 7 is a top global priority to supercharge Wi-Fi capabilities and drive new IIoT use cases.
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Spectrum Surveyor from TCI enables regulators to proactively and continuously monitor frequencies, with a centralized sensor approach suited for the evolving digital landscape.
5G WHITE PAPERS, APPLICATION NOTES, CASE STUDIES, & BROCHURES
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Deep packet inspection (DPI) is rapidly transforming to meet the advanced visibility needs of IP traffic flows across cellular networks as they transition from LTE to 5G and in the not-too-distant future, to 6G.
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Smaller mobile devices with many frequency bands make the antennas of our mobile devices more complex. For engineers, this complexity is another hurdle to overcome.
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The Qorvo QPF7250 is an integrated front end module (iFEM) designed for Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) systems which marries the advantages of active components with edgeBoost filter technology.
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In part 4 of this series, we address the challenge of timing alignment between 5G base stations as this has a large effect on inter-cell interference and, consequently user experience.
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Part 3 of this series discusses how you can measure and analyze 5G networks passively by analyzing synchronization and broadcast signals.
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This application note describes the measurement challenges of 5G NR and makes clear the benefits of using a monitoring receiver for measuring 5G signals.