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NYU WIRELESS to make key 5G software free and open to all

In his keynote speech at a Federal Communications Commission workshop on 5G wireless technology, pioneering researcher Theodore (Ted) Rappaport announced that New York University is making its channel model simulator and measurement data free and open to all—potentially short-circuiting years of millimeter wave (mmWave) development time for companies hoping to vastly increase the transfer of data through the air.


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2016 Mobile World Congress: Breaking Records

5G, IoT, VR draw 101,000 to annual event in Barcelona

Mobile World Congress invades Barcelona each MarchThe 2016 Mobile World Congress (MWC) broke attendance records and attracted governments, leading CEOs, the cream of industry and visitors from around the globe. It was a hotspot for innovation and a springboard for new technologies that will impact people’s everyday lives worldwide, now and into the future. 


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Frequency Matters, March 2, 2016

RF and Microwave video update series

Episode 56Editors Pat Hindle and Gary Lerude discuss the March Test and Measurement issue articles, latest news and events including a discussion about the latest in 5G developments.


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NXP and Nokia’s Bell Labs demo converged 5G wireless and wireline access technology

NXP Semiconductors™ N.V., a worldwide leader in advanced systems solutions for the world’s new virtualized networks, and Bell Labs, the industrial research division of Nokia, announced they are the first to create and demonstrate a universal access device that can be used to combine wireline and wireless access support. The device is capable of supporting wireline (cable, DSL/copper) and wireless (LTE, 5G) standards with a single modem.


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NXP announces strategic initiative to Fast-Track 5G

NXP Semiconductors N.V., a worldwide leader in the cellular infrastructure market, announced the strategic alignment following the merger of NXP and Freescale of comprehensive products and technologies to meet the complete system challenges of 5G. NXP’s comprehensive portfolio of low and high power RF technologies are being combined to address 5G demands of bandwidth, linearity, power-efficiency and small form factor solutions.


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