GSA: A country-by-country summary of 5G spectrum

As of mid-2017, regulators in 42 countries have advanced plans for 5G spectrum by conducting auctions, designating certain bands, holding consultations, or announced plans to auction frequencies or have already allocated spectrum for 5G use, according to GSA. This in-depth report provides a country-by-country overview of 5G spectrum. Some highlights: In Europe, Ireland, Latvia, Spain and UK have already completed auctions of 5G spectrum. Germany,...

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TSMC's fabs disrupted by virus, some shipments will be delayed

TSMC was disrupted by a computer virus outbreak on the evening of August 3 that affected a number of computer systems and fab tools in Taiwan. As of Sunday at 14:00 Taiwan time, TSMC stated that about 80% of its impacted tools have been recovered, and the company expects full recovery on August 6. TSMC expects this incident to cause shipment delays and additional costs. The company stated: "We estimate the impact to third quarter revenue to be...

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ITU launches Network 2030 study program

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has established a new Focus Group on Technologies for Network 2030 with the aim of identifying emerging and future technologies beyond 5G. "The work of the ITU Focus Group on Technologies for 'Network 2030' will provide network system experts around the globe with a very valuable international reference point from which to guide the innovation required to support ICT use cases through 2030 and beyond,"...

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Faster Standards Development - MEF moves from Hardware to Software

One of the biggest trends in the industry is the movement from hardware to software, says Pascal Menezes, CTO, MEF. As a standards organization, MEF is dealing with this change in a couple of ways.  Rather than write the specification first, MEF is looking to developers to iterate their software first and then following with the specification development. Filmed at the MEF Annual Members' Meeting in Nashville. See video: https://youtu....

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MIT researchers develop silicon-based optical filter

Researchers from MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronic have designed an optical filter on a chip that can process optical signals from across an extremely wide spectrum of light at once. “This new filter takes an extremely broad range of wavelengths within its bandwidth as input and efficiently separates it into two output signals, regardless of exactly how wide or at what wavelength the input is. That capability didn’t before in integrated...

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