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From the 4G World
TABLE 1: Key specification comparison between 4G and 5G.
To the 5G World
Latency
Data Traffic
Peak Data Rates
Device Connection
Density
< 1 ms
> 50 exabytes / month
20 Gb/s
> 1 million connections/km
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received certification from the U.S. government to oper-
ate its own drone fleet. Healthcare deliveries are its first
target application.
The ability to transmit data quickly and at a high
rate leads to the "four FRs" of tomorrow's communication
infrastructure: Redundancy, Resiliency, Reliability,
and Regionalization. It is here that the data center
emerges as the heart and mind; not as a handful of large
data centers but rather a vast, distributed network
of data centers.
> 10 ms
7.2 exabytes / month
1 Gb/s
100,000 connections/km
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