Singaporean telecommunications carrier M1 has announced attaining speeds of 35Gbps during a trial of 5G network technology with Chinese technology giant Huawei.
The lab trial was conducted at M1's main operating centre in Jurong, and made use of millimeter wave (mmWave) spectrum in the 73GHz E-band.
"Singapore's mobile networks are widely acknowledged as amongst the most advanced worldwide, and M1 is committed to staying at the forefront of 5G technology to ensure our consumers enjoy the best experience and latest smart applications," M1 CTO Denis Seek said.
M1 and Huawei have been working together on improving 4G speeds for more than a year; in January last year, they announced attaining 1Gbps download/130Mbps upload speeds across M1's 4G mobile network using a CAT14 Huawei device for the trial.
The 4G trial was also conducted inside of M1's LTE Advanced test lab, and attained through the combination of four network technologies: 4x4 Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO); two-component carrier (2CC) uplink carrier aggregation; 3CC tri-band downlink carrier aggregation; and Higher Order Modulation 256 Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM).
"Through technology innovation, we can further stretch the capability of current 4G technology, prior to the advent of 5G technology, to achieve an incredible peak download speed of more than 1Gbps," Seek said at the time.
M1 also partnered with Nokia on 5G network technology, and conducted the nation's first live demonstration of narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) in October last year.
The NB-IoT trial with Nokia involved the use of a room temperature and humidity sensor remote application, which collects and shares data, and was again conducted inside M1's lab, while the 5G trial saw three robots display 1ms latency.
Source: http://www.zdnet.com/article/m1-and-huawei-reach-35gbps-speeds-during-5g-trial/