In the worldwide highest mmWave access capacity demonstration, Deutsche Telekom and Huawei achieved up to 70Gbps multi-user connection speeds.
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e live demo conducted on a millimeter wave (mmWave) band at 73GHz gives good insights on how the advanced multi-beam forming technology could enable an ultra-high broadband experience for customers in indoor scenarios as well as in extremely crowded areas. While on top of that providing the highest mmWave spectrum efficiency.
Telekom has proven the potential of the advanced mmWave Multi-user MIMO concept for the most extreme 5G use cases. These require that network operators offer ultra-high transmission in crowded areas. With 5G:haus Telekom has the best innovation concepts and advanced technologies with leading partners to drive 5G in the right direction.
How it works
Multi-beam forming technology uses cutting-edge meta-material antennas. This class of antennas allows highly miniaturized antenna systems, while maintaining high beam-forming performance. Meta-material antennas behave as if they were much larger than their actual physical size.
The meta-material based focal array (MMFA) technology is used to create steerable pencil pointing beams between the antenna array and users’ devices. They transmit at the same time and at the same frequency, separated by their different beam signatures. Thus mmWave Multi-user MIMO technology provides more than 20Gbps extremely high connectivity speed to every individual user. This is more than 60 times faster compared to the fastest mobile broadband connection today. Customers could download a breathtaking 100GB 4K resolution video in only 40 seconds. The mmWave bands can be used as a complementary spectrum to the lower-band to deliver an ultra-high mobile broadband user experience.