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The road to realising the full promise of the 5G pathway The road to realising 5G is not a straight path. There are twists and turns along the way, all which play a critical role en route to 5G standalone. Hop in as we take you down the 5G pathway and discover the impact each stop along the journey has in making its full promise a reality. 5G non-standalone (NSA) Dynamic Spectrum Sharing (DSS) 5G mmWave 5G standalone (SA) DSS is a pivotal stop on the way to 5G and improves the consumer 5G experience 5G mmWave brings super-fast download speeds, more bandwidth and future-proofs networks to handle more mobile data traffic due to the abundance of spectrum in bands above 24Ghz The next destination of 5G SA has everything you could ever need: speed, efficiency, performance, scalability, ultra-reliability, low latency, enabling new use cases, making it well worth the journey to get there 5G SA will enable industries to do things like network slicing (allowing industrial automation to use dedicated network resources to guarantee reliability, latency, security, and quality of service) and form how autonomous vehicles communicate to make instantaneous, reliable decisions 5G SA requires operators to put in place an end-to-end 5G network including a new core - with separate hardware and soſtware from 4G. It’s capabilities allow for new revenue streams and exciting services To make DSS a reality, some critical steps are in order: • Operators can roll-out new services by sharing 4G spectrum with 5G • Base stations get a soſtware upgrade • New antennas added to 4G mid/high-band levels What’s 5G NSA? 5G networks using existing 4G infrastructure to bring 5G to market quicker All 5G launches in Europe are based on NSA, as well as Russia, who are deploying 5G on mmWave What’s DSS? The dynamic use of legacy 4G bands now shared with 5G, to expand coverage quickly and facilitate the transition What’s 5G mmWave? The deployment of 5G in bands above 24Ghz What’s 5G SA? 5G standalone networks using low and mid-band levels while also supporting mmWave, with no reliance on 4G qualcomm.com/5G ® 2020 Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and/or its affiliated companies. All Rights Reserved. Qualcomm Snapdragon is a product of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries. 5G carrier aggregation also improves network capacity and coverage to make the most of 5G NSA and leverage these new and improved services 5G NSA 4G Thanks for paying a visit to town of 5G NSA Now please buckle up your seat belts as we pick up further speed DSS Service Station Under Construction: super-fast download speeds “We’re laying the groundwork so this area can manage more traffic” New services and business models Greater efficiency! Improved user performance! o Fast download speeds! o Ultra-low latency and reliability! Stop 1 Stop 2 Stop 4 The path to 5G starts with 4G infrastructure and 5G loaded on top Stop 3 Hotel 5G SA New scales for new industries! All supported by Qualcomm ® Snapdragon™ 8, 7, 6 series 5G mobile platforms. 4-series coming soon. 4G Better throughput Expanded 5G network coverage More 5G coverage, in more places, for more of the time We’re here! Next stops: More 5G carrier aggregation; vehicle-to-everything communications; 5G in unlicensed spectrum; 5G IoT; and more...
