Discussing the Wireless Ecosystem’s Disruptive Evolution

What you’ll learn:

• What’s happening in the wireless ecosystem and its challenges.
• Thoughts and predictions on the transformation of the wireless marketplace.

When it comes to wireless systems, we’re in a disruptive evolutionary phase, with an interesting combination of multiple advanced solutions looking for application spaces to address. Some of these application spaces overlap, some of them interlock, some of them are complementary, and some are redundant. Today’s modern devices must be multimodal, multilingual, and multi-protocol just to function on an acceptable level in the marketplace.

For example, a smartphone today has multiple radios for Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, cellular and other bands, dozens of filters, and quite a few operational protocols it must be fluent in. Luckily, this complexity is transparent to the consumer, but it poses many challenges to the developers and manufacturers of these devices. We’re deploying 5G in the middle of developing 6G while looking forward to 7G, and within that, we’re already talking about how best to design the networks of the future. 

Expanding capabilities include operating with non-terrestrial networks using low-Earth-orbit satellites that leverage AI-based management systems. It’s not only a matter of optimizing what we have, but also integrating what we're going to have. We’ve reached the point where we really must understand what mobile wireless is going to become in the next decade.

In this podcast, Ian Wong, Senior Director of RF and Wireless Architecture at VIAVI Solutions, talks about the ever-changing roadmap for the wireless ecosystem.