In this vignette of The 5G Factor, Ron Westfall and Clint Wheelock provide their perspective on Samsung and Mediatek completing their lab demo that showed three transmit (3Tx) antennas can be used to improve upload experiences.
The discussion highlighted:
Samsung Electronics and MediaTek Demonstrate 5G Uplink Capabilities with Three Transmit Antenna. Samsung and MediaTek successfully completed testing of 5G Standalone Uplink (UL) 2CC Carrier Aggregation with C-Band UL MIMO to improve uplink speeds. The Suwon, Korea-based lab demo used three transmit (3Tx) antennas to improve upload experiences. We consider and review what 5G ecosystem benefits 3Tx capabilities can provide across the 5G ecosystem in areas such as cloud gaming, video collaboration platforms, and live streaming.
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Transcript:
Clint Wheelock: As we were looking through the stories and some of the key developments, one thing I thought was interesting that we were talking about, is the Samsung and Mediatech announcement. About completing their successful testing of 5G standalone uplink for carrier aggregation. And I think that has C-band uplink MIMO to achieve the top uplink speeds. And it seems that this is a pretty notable achievement in expanding and improving the mobile wireless capabilities. And I’m curious what your take is on that, Ron?
Ron Westfall: Oh yeah, you bet. And yeah, this approach I see is using what we can understand as three transmit antennas. So that in itself is a breakthrough. Because it’s with these three transmit antennas that we can improve upload experiences. And I believe this is going to be integral to ushering in an era of enhanced connectivity for customers, including consumers and businesses worldwide.
And as we’ve seen, the demands on uplink performance are increasing with the rise of applications such as live-streaming, multiplayer gaming, and video conferences and so forth. And now to be clear, upload speeds determine how fast your device can send data to gaming servers or transmit, for example, high resolution videos to the cloud. As we see more customers seek to document and share their experiences with the world in real time. These enhanced uplink experiences are going to be a difference maker when it comes to not only improving of the network performance we touched on, but also improving the overall experience for all the users out there.
And so what we’re seeing today is that smartphones and customer premise equipment can only support two transmit antennas. And as such, this industry first demo validates the enhanced mobile capabilities of three transmit antenna technology. And so this is exciting. This approach not only improves uploads speeds, but also has added benefits such as enhancing spectrum and data transmission efficiency, as well as, logically the overall performance of the network itself.
And notably, this test was conducted in Samsung’s lab in Suwon, Korea. And they provided their own 5G network solutions, including the C-band massive MIMO radios. As well as the virtualized distributed unit, as well as the core for this testing. And so really this is, I think, an innovation we’ll be keeping a close eye on.
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Author Information
Ron is an experienced, customer-focused research expert and analyst, with over 20 years of experience in the digital and IT transformation markets, working with businesses to drive consistent revenue and sales growth.
Ron holds a Master of Arts in Public Policy from University of Nevada — Las Vegas and a Bachelor of Arts in political science/government from William and Mary.
Clint brings over 20 years of market research and consulting experience, focused on emerging technology markets. He was co-founder and CEO of Dash Network, an integrated research and digital media firm focused on the CX market, which was acquired by The Futurum Group in 2022. He previously founded Tractica with a focus on human interaction with technology, including coverage of AI, user interface technologies, advanced computing, and other emerging sectors. Acquired by Informa Group, Clint served as Chief Research Officer for Informa’s research division, Omdia, with management and content strategy responsibility, formed by the combination of Tractica, Ovum, IHS Markit Technology, and Heavy Reading.
Clint was previously the founder and President of Pike Research, a leading market intelligence firm focused on the global clean technology industry, which was acquired by Navigant Consulting where he was Managing Director of the Navigant Research business.
Prior to Pike Research, Clint was Chief Research Officer at ABI Research, a New York-based industry analyst firm concentrating on the impact of emerging technologies on global consumer and business markets.
Clint holds a Master of Business Administration in Telecommunications Management from the University of Dallas and a Bachelor of Arts in History from Washington & Lee University.
