Verizon completes successful Dynamic Spectrum Sharing Technology trials in Advance of 5G Nationwide
June 22 2020 - 11:00AM
Verizon recently completed successful trials of Dynamic Spectrum
Sharing (DSS) technology in Texas and Minnesota. The trials,
conducted in a live network environment, showed effective
completion of data sessions with both LTE and 5G NR services
running simultaneously over low band spectrum.
“The most recent successful trials of our DSS technology
demonstrate we are on track to launch 5G Nationwide in 2020,” said
Adam Koeppe, Senior Vice President of Technology Planning at
Verizon. “DSS will allow us to run 5G technology on the same
spectrum bands as LTE without inefficiently wasting spectrum
resources. It will complement Verizon’s primary strategy of
offering a keenly differentiated 5G Ultra Wideband service on
mmWave spectrum which will remain our deployment priority.”
Dynamic Spectrum Sharing is a technology that allows 5G service
to run simultaneously with 4G LTE on multiple spectrum bands,
including those historically reserved for 4G LTE services.
When commercially deployed in the near future, this new technology
will allow Verizon to use its full portfolio of current spectrum
resources to serve both 4G and 5G customers, maximizing their
experience on the Verizon network by making 5G nationwide
available. The dynamic nature of how a network is used requires the
ability to allocate spectrum resources in real-time providing
customers the precise experience they need. With DSS, when
customers move outside Verizon’s 5G Ultra Wideband coverage area,
their 5G-enabled devices will remain on 5G technology using lower
bands of spectrum.
The launch of DSS technology will unleash the power of 5G
technology, allowing for robust computing at the edge of the
network, and greater programmability of the network to manage
dynamic traffic and uses. Customers will benefit from the extremely
low latencies and the wide coverage of 5G with devices also capable
of our Ultra Wideband experience.
“The inherent characteristics of 5G technology will lead to a
wide variety of use cases that include everything from massive
numbers of IoT devices that do very little networking, to
smartphones with infinite opportunities to use data, to more
complex solutions such as AR/VR that will require massive computing
capabilities on the edge of the network. Those solutions will
each require different combinations of the capabilities 5G will
offer. To “right-size” network resources for these various
use cases, it will require great flexibility and adaptability in
the network,” said Koeppe. “DSS is an important stepping stone in
achieving the flexibility and adaptability needed to accomplish
such an aspirational level of programmability in our advanced
Intelligent Edge Network.”
About Verizon
Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE, Nasdaq: VZ) was formed on
June 30, 2000 and is celebrating its 20th year as one of the
world’s leading providers of technology, communications,
information and entertainment products and services. Headquartered
in New York City and with a presence around the world, Verizon
generated revenues of $131.9 billion in 2019.
The company offers voice, data and video
services and solutions on its award winning networks and platforms,
delivering on customers’ demand for mobility, reliable network
connectivity, security and control.
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