Best to watch The Simpson’s for a glimpse into the future. I’m pretty sure there’s time travel involved.
I think RF Design hasn’t evolved much. Simple N=1 reuse and cell splits are the method that’s been used successfully for decades. Going smaller isn’t innovative. MiMo is a big leap however. Broader channels are the only way to deliver huge bandwidth. Going higher and higher QAM doesn’t work well for mobile handsets and the diminishing returns and crazy timing necessary to maintain a high QAM other than a lab are not practical. Small cells are UGLY. They’re also close to the people and EMR is a concern to many. The FCC has guidelines that I do trust but we’re not dealing with sites that are 100’ tall and every 1/2 mile now. They’re on just about every street corner. Most carriers are digging up the streets to bring fiber to each of these poles. It’s an expensive deployment. 802.11ax is the best innovation I’ve seen and it is truly 5G more than anything else that’s out there. 8x8 and 12x12 MiMo and color coded streams for interference mitigation are a big difference maker. Jerry Bickle President RF Design Services, LLC Cell: 405.650.3366 Fax: 405.330.1310 Email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> WEB: www.rfdesignservices.com<http://www.rfdesignservices.com/> From: AF <[email protected]> on behalf of Adam Moffett <[email protected]> Reply-To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, March 25, 2021 at 9:59 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]> Subject: [AFMUG] Wireless future Any opinions on where wireless technology will evolve in the next 5 years? There's a compound annual growth in demand, and trying to think about how manufacturers will meet that going forward. I'm assuming we can't count on bigger channels or more spectrum. So what then? More MU-MIMO chains? Or is it going to have to be street level small cells (60ghz etc)? Or something else? We're investing heavily in fiber, as I know a lot of you are, but the wireless customers aren't going to go away. -- AF mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__af.afmug.com_mailman_listinfo_af-5Faf.afmug.com&d=DwIGaQ&c=euGZstcaTDllvimEN8b7jXrwqOf-v5A_CdpgnVfiiMM&r=oZldojrM2-7OE-SOcQyzFlyOFVuvqI9-MKCJpgPtw5o&m=bOiKRwWQBPYARG4WBm8Fvsompi82WCazDT9jImYirBk&s=y0OEvTCKA-uC0trV_bZmS0o2H7KqtGiFk0J4YCzSDSA&e=
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