Berlin: The new 5G capital?

5G is the new network standard that will connect billions of devices and sensors from 2020 on. In Germany´s capital Berlin, this technology is under continuous research and development. The state of research conducted within the initiative “5G Berlin” of Fraunhofer FOKUS and HHI is currently presented at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona.

In the future, 5G infrastructures shall deliver new bandwidths and low latencies for worldwide data transfers. 5G is a promising technology. Its areas of application are ranging from improved streaming to Augmented Reality. Thus 5G could change tomorrow´s working environment intensively. However, as with most new technologies, there is the problem of integration with existing systems.