5G utilizes different radio frequencies than current mobile technologies, particularly high bands known as millimeter waves (mmwaves), to offer faster data speeds. These frequencies tend to be less congested and enable much quicker data speeds.
However, this new flexibility creates more points of potential attack and places additional strain on existing network security monitoring solutions – creating a key challenge for industry to address.
High-Speed Data
5G networks promise instant movie downloads and games without lag; new immersive technologies like virtual and augmented reality; instant machine communication among themselves for better manufacturing efficiencies, agricultural processes, etc.
Autonomous vehicles will also benefit significantly from 5G. Through its low latency network, these cars will be able to relay information between themselves and the outside world in order to prevent accidents or relieve congestion more efficiently – connecting with road signals 250 times faster than their current average average speeds.
5G brings with it many exciting possibilities, yet also poses unique challenges to overcome. Notably, installing and operating these networks requires considerable talent including engineers, technicians, and other qualified workers who know their way around the equipment – it is therefore imperative that when considering the overall costs associated with its implementation this aspect should not be neglected.
Low Latency
As 5G networks must take advantage of mmWave signals’ short range to deliver adequate coverage and connectivity, dense deployment requires a scalable backhaul infrastructure capable of supporting this dense deployment strategy.
5G’s low latency capabilities enable real-time communication and responsiveness, making applications like remote surgery or autonomous vehicles possible. This feature is especially important in workloads where even millisecond delays could have serious financial or safety repercussions (think stock trading).
5G offers not only increased device capacity but its lower latency can also extend battery life for devices that rely on mobile networks for critical functions like telemedicine, branch office automation and immersive experiences such as virtual and augmented reality.
Low Power Consumption
5G’s low power consumption capabilities will bring many advantages to devices and infrastructure, including smart meters used in energy generation and distribution applications that leverage wireless network data connectivity to remote locations – an approach which will both increase efficiency and lower operational costs.
Lower power requirements also enable a network to transmit more data streams at once, speeding processes and opening new business opportunities. Augmented reality experiences become more realistic when data streams can arrive faster through this network. For instance, virtual field trips become more lifelike when network can quickly deliver required information.
Beamforming and network slicing technologies help achieve this, by minimizing interference. However, increasing bandwidth will strain security monitoring efforts, necessitating more hardware traffic points to protect data.
Flexibility
5G technology employing higher frequencies enables more data to be transmitted over shorter distances, meaning download speeds could double or even triple what are currently possible on 4G networks, making streaming HD videos, downloading apps and navigating maps much faster.
5G offers businesses an incredibly flexible core that allows for dynamic and automated network management to keep up with business demands, with high levels of Network Function Virtualization (NFV), Software Defined Networking (SDN), and advanced monitoring technologies providing fast, reliable connections for customers.
Device flexibility enables PHY and medium access layer reconfiguration on demand based on context-related triggers, through “radio programs.” These changes combine hardware primitives into radio programs that control devices like analog front-ends, converters, filters, baseband modulators and transmission queues – just like computer programs but on demand reconfigured over air to the radio engine manager, stored in memory and reconfigured based on demand.