geomancer
08-10-2020, 08:42 AM
Some very *special* folks around here are going to shit a brick over this, so don your tinfoil hats and here we go:
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/standards/5g-release-16
"The only reason you’re able to read this right now is because of the Internet standards created by the Internet Engineering Task Force (https://www.ietf.org/). So while standards may not always be the most exciting thing in the world, they make exciting things possible. And occasionally, even the standards themselves get weird.
That’s the case with the recent 5G standards codified by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (https://www.3gpp.org/) (3GPP), the industry group that establishes the standards for cellular networks. 3GPP finalized Release 16 (https://www.3gpp.org/release-16) on July 3.
Release 16 is where things are getting weird for 5G. While earlier releases focused on the core of 5G as a generation of cellular service, Release 16 lays the groundwork for new services that have never been addressed by cellular before. At least, not in such a rigorous, comprehensive way.
“Release 15 really focused on the situation we’re familiar with,” says Danny Tseng (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tsengdanny), a director of technical marketing at Qualcomm (https://www.qualcomm.com/), referring to cellular service, adding, “release 16 really broke the barrier” for connected robots, cars, factories, and dozens of other applications and scenarios."
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https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/standards/5g-release-16
"The only reason you’re able to read this right now is because of the Internet standards created by the Internet Engineering Task Force (https://www.ietf.org/). So while standards may not always be the most exciting thing in the world, they make exciting things possible. And occasionally, even the standards themselves get weird.
That’s the case with the recent 5G standards codified by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (https://www.3gpp.org/) (3GPP), the industry group that establishes the standards for cellular networks. 3GPP finalized Release 16 (https://www.3gpp.org/release-16) on July 3.
Release 16 is where things are getting weird for 5G. While earlier releases focused on the core of 5G as a generation of cellular service, Release 16 lays the groundwork for new services that have never been addressed by cellular before. At least, not in such a rigorous, comprehensive way.
“Release 15 really focused on the situation we’re familiar with,” says Danny Tseng (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tsengdanny), a director of technical marketing at Qualcomm (https://www.qualcomm.com/), referring to cellular service, adding, “release 16 really broke the barrier” for connected robots, cars, factories, and dozens of other applications and scenarios."
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