Samsung successfully completed a trial with KDDI (Okinawa, Japan) at a 30,000-capacity baseball stadium showcasing a live feed of 4K video content downloaded and streamed simultaneously on 50 5G tablets.

With KT and Verizon, we conducted a 5G international video call between Minneapolis, MN and Seoul, Korea during the Big Game.

Working with Cisco and Orange (UK) on the first multi-vendor 5G fixed wireless trial in Europe, we demonstrated successful inter-network operations that will enable 5G’s evolution.

Samsung’s commercial massive MIMO solution is a 64 transmit and 64 receive (64T/64R) configured radio with active antennas in a compact and lightweight form factor. The Samsung Massive MIMO solution will provide gigabit level speeds as well as inter-band FDD carrier aggregation with downlink support for 256QAM. Operators gain the ability to increase network capacity without the high costs of buying more spectrum or adding new base station sites.

Samsung's Next-Generation Core solution is built on the principles of virtualization, hardware independence and open platforms. By shifting to a completely software-driven environment, operators gain the ability to optimize utilization of server hardware resources, and the ability to pool resources from multiple data centers.

Virtualized Network Functions (VNFs) are split into individual pieces of software in a process called ‘decomposition,’ allowing for on-demand assignment of hardware resources. You can deploy individual functions only as needed by a given service, and with ‘Network Slicing,’ multiple virtual sub-networks can be established that isolate different types of traffic and handle each in an optimal manner based on its own requirements.