What To Know About 5G

From Joey Pepka of Peptronics

What Exactly is 5G?
The 5th generation of mobile network or more commonly known as 5G is the new global standard. Just like its predecessors 1G, 2G, 3G, and 4G; 5G offers a completely different spectrum of the network ensuring that it can connect to everyone and bring forth all the devices, and machines together.

What are the Benefits of 5G?
This goes without saying, the much-awaited hype around 5G is its unprecedented speed. A higher bandwidth makes sure that you are able to connect more devices at the same time. No more slow speed just because more users are on the same internet connection.
Communication with cloud platforms is going to be faster than ever before.

How Fast We Can Download Using 5G
According to a report by GSMA, the worldwide median download speed over 5G was 954% faster than that over 4G during Q3 2020. For better understanding, with a 5G network, you would be able to download a 2 hour movie within 10 seconds as compared to 7 minutes for 4G. That being said, there are several determining factors such as location and network traffic that can determine the download speed.

How Can We Use the 5G Network?
Just like any other generation of mobile connectivity, users need to have 5G enabled consumer devices to reap the benefits of 5G. In fact, all the major smartphone manufacturers including Apple, Samsung, Motorola, OnePlus have already released their 5G devices.

The Underlying Technology Behind 5G 
Just like 4G LTE, 5G also operates on the same mobile networking principles. The only difference being, with the implementation of 5G NR, there’s a higher degree of flexibility as well as scalability.  5G also ensures to use of multiple bandwidths by expanding the spectrum. That means, there is more likely to be reduced congestion. Neither less to say, multi Gbps speed, as well as low latency, are to name a few.

Major Setbacks in 5G Technology 
Although the 5G technology comes with various bells and whistles, there are some severe setbacks we might face while implementing 5G. For starters, based on the survey conducted by GSMA, even by 2025 only 50% of all mobile communication will be using 5G. As for the remaining half, they might be still stuck at the older generation. There are some other concerns regarding the security of 5G as well.

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I am a cybersecurity and IT instructor, cybersecurity analyst, pen-tester, trainer, and speaker. I am an owner of the WyzCo Group Inc. In addition to consulting on security products and services, I also conduct security audits, compliance audits, vulnerability assessments and penetration tests. I also teach Cybersecurity Awareness Training classes. I work as an information technology and cybersecurity instructor for several training and certification organizations. I have worked in corporate, military, government, and workforce development training environments I am a frequent speaker at professional conferences such as the Minnesota Bloggers Conference, Secure360 Security Conference in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, the (ISC)2 World Congress 2016, and the ISSA International Conference 2017, and many local community organizations, including Chambers of Commerce, SCORE, and several school districts. I have been blogging on cybersecurity since 2006 at http://wyzguyscybersecurity.com
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