Samsung Electronics announced that its network equipment subsidiary Samsung Networks has achieved a record average download speed of 1.75Gbps over a 10-kilometer spacing using “mmWave 5G” network equipment.
According to the report, the company collaborated with NBN Australia in a recent field trial of fixed wireless access (FWA) using Samsung’s second-generation 5G modem chip’s 28GHz Compact Macro device and third-party 5G mmWave client devices (CPE).
The 5G device, which combines a base station, radio and antenna, is already being used by network operators in Japan, South Korea and the U.S., according to Samsung, the highest download speed in the trial was 2.75 Gbps and the average upload speed was 61.5 Mbps.
Samsung’s beamforming technology allows for the aggregation of mmWave 5G bands across operators, resulting in higher download and upload speeds. The company said the test used eight component carriers (8CC), which means it used 800MHz of mmWave spectrum aggregation.
The NBN will use a total of $750 million, including $480 million from the Australian government, to improve Australia’s mmWave 5G network by extending the coverage of its FWA network by 50 percent.
Samsung said the new results demonstrate that mmWave 5G is equally applicable to densely populated urban areas and remote rural areas, which will reduce the communication gap between rural and urban areas.
