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Next-generation telecommunications networks (5G) will reach the market by 2020. With this, the operators intend to offer s improvements in speed, and it is expected that the new network will generate an ecosystem for the Internet of Things (IoT), capable of meeting the communication needs of billions of connected devices with adequate speed, latency and cost. 6z4l38
While several countries are implementing the new network to meet the new demands, the World Economic Forum, which measures issues such as infrastructure and legislative environment for new technologies, reported, through a survey, that Brazil is in 72nd place, behind China. , Chile and South Africa when it comes to the new network.
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To exemplify the delay in the process of implementing the new generation of network in Brazil, the auctions of the bands that will be used for the technology 5G should stay for the second half of 2019, according to the president of the National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel), Juarez Quadros.
“There is still a series of actions to be developed, a series of public consultations, mainly regarding the frequencies that would be destined for this”, said Juarez, after participating in the 20th edition of Futurecom, a telecommunications fair that brings together businessmen and government representatives. .
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Anatel is studying making other frequencies available in addition to the 2,3 GHz and 3,5 GHz bands for the future fifth generation technology. Meanwhile, companies like Nextel e Ericsson have already closed a partnership to implement the Virtual Evolved Packet Core (vEPC) in Brazil.
The virtualization solution will contribute to the expansion of the mobile data processing capacity of the company's 4G network. Nextel, and will leave the operator ready for the arrival of 5G in Brazil. With the implementation, the company stops investing in physical equipment and starts to rely on a data center infrastructure with virtualization and evolution to the cloud.
“A Nextel, and the market in which we operate as a whole, follows a trend of virtualization”, says Estevam Araújo, CTO of the company. “This scenario requires constant evolution, and the Ericsson worked as our partner, mobilizing resources and using its experience to carry out this process of transforming our network”, completes Araújo.
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With over 140 similar projects around the world, Ericsson started the same implementation in September of this year, and is expected to complete it in three months. “Easily scalable, this solution will help Nextel to grow more quickly and economically. Compared to a traditional expansion project, which relies more on hardware, this implementation will bring energy savings of around 30% and an efficient use of software applications of more than 90%”, says Murilo Barbosa, Ericsson's Commercial VP , on the competition.
A Ericsson is also working with América Móvil (owner of the Claro, NET and Embratel brands in Brazil), in addition to maintaining partnerships with Brazilian universities with the objective of developing 5G. During the last edition of Futurecom, in SP, the Clear has already demonstrated how a new network in the country will be implemented.
However, the Living claims to have been the first Brazilian operator to reach network speeds of over 530 Mbps using its own infrastructure in the São Paulo metropolitan region. The company says that this is an important step towards the rollout of the new network, and that s should be able to enjoy the experience as soon as the first cell phones with this technology arrive in the country.
A Ericsson and Living also announced in October the performance of field tests with the Massive MIMO technology, activated in the 4,5G/LTE-A network, currently implemented by the operator in São Paulo. According to Atila Branco, director of Planning and Networks at Vivo, data traffic is on the rise and will increase exponentially with the advancement of 4K video services, Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality. “We are preparing and testing new technologies to ensure that our networks have the capacity and speed that will offer our customers the best mobile data experience in Brazil,” she said.
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